At one side, digital is more convenient than "real" stuff.
I have hundreds of CD's stuffed into a small box as FLAC files. I still buy CD's, but I only do so to be able to create my own FLAC files. (For people who wonder: FLAC is a compression format that does not lose any musical information, as compared to MP3.)
I have hundreds of books stuffed onto my HDD as EPUBs.
I have thousands of pictures stuffed beside the EPUBs, as RAW or JPG files.
If I would have all of that as real CD's on shelves (let alone LP's; everything is in boxes in the attic right now), real books, and real photo albums, I'd need a house three times as big as I do now. The only reason why I still have DVD's and Blu-Ray discs sitting on shelves, is because I don't (yet) have the space needed to rip them. A single DVD takes around 8.5GB, while a Blu-Ray can go up to 30GB or so. I *could* rip and store the DVD's, but the Blu-Ray's are just too big.
On the other side, digital is also breaking down the world as we now it. No more CD-stores. No more bookstores. No more photography labs. No nothing.
Maybe the convenience of digital is making the world less rich and interesting to live in.
Last edited by Katsunami; 07-21-2013 at 10:49 AM.
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