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Originally Posted by wizwor
I feel bad for the simple minded people who pen these articles. I can't imagine thinking that PCs, tablets, e-readers, and the like are static devices that come and go. It's much more fun to be able to follow the evolution of information and entertainment technology. The e-reader isn't a direct descendent of the scroll. It's a branch of the tree of personal computing. It evolved from laptops and evolved into tablets. It will not go away.
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I'd say the ereader physically developed more from things like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant
as well as the digitizing of books on CD-Roms and reading on comuters.
Plus Science Fiction must be given credit for many of the ideas like eReaders, tricorders, sonic screwdrivers and the like!
