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After reading the article and seeing the actual proposed flops I agree that e-books are different from most of the other items because they have not been bypassed by anything and to suggest that the book scene will remain forever mostly paper is ridiculous. Sure paper books have some advantages and they will still be with us for a while but more and more reading is done digitally.
The move to e-publishing is bumpy, slower than we here would like it, but it happens as we see for example with newspapers and magazines most dramatically, and I think it will only accelerate as more external pressures mount over publishers/brick and mortar sellers
And similarly with some other things on that list that while flops the way stated there, they are actually happening in more useful and acceptable form (net currency, well we have PayPal, virtual reality well maybe not with goggles but the Net is evolving quite dramatically toward a parallel reality with all the social sites including this one and fantasy ones like Second Life)
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