Paper is dead, it just hasn't accepted that yet. Print in general has dug its inky claws in a bit deeper, but must accept eventuality as well. Many people will argue that the hardcopy will be around forever because it only takes one power-failure to lose everything. To this I say, guess what the "hard" part of "hard drive" means, it's really rather similar to the "hard" part of "hardcopy". It only takes one fire, just as likely as a power outage, to lose all your hard copies. People believe a hardcopy is more reliable that a digital copy because computers are still new and mysterious. Just because you can't recover it doesn't mean it can't be recovered. For quite some time now they've had a machine that can take the plates directly from a hard drive and recover the data, you don't even need the hard drive!
As for print, we've seen it begin to fall. The rising popularity of Digital Picture Frames, big screen Billboards and electronic magazines shows people are already embracing a paper less society, meaning it's only a matter of time till we get a paper-less society.
2 comments:
This proves what I already knew -- you need to argue more in class. Get your opinion out there. Only I can see the quiet head shakes ... get arguing!
I agree, you have some brilliant insight; More people need to hear your voice.
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