Prints are dying, Digital is taking over.
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- detritus0
What we 'need' is information.
What form that takes will be subject to lots of pointless, zealous bickering back and forth both ways for years to come.
Personally, I want a couple of screens and a digital hub. I do most of my media consumption via a computer these days anyway.
It's like music—I used to treasure my CD collection, now I rue it. I have ten or twenty times the amount of music in a 2.5" form factor than I did in two 6 foot hight towers of unrecyclable polycarbonate/aluminium disc sandwiches.
I've thrown out, quite literally, about a third of a tonne of periodicals over the last 4 years, and I still have book cases filled with paper mass which I'll only intermittently refer to.
Why? Why do I waste so much space with this shit?
It's the information that's important.
For me, anyway.
- Actually, I think I worked out it was a quarter tonne of periodicals. No need to exaggerate, eh?detritus
- Are you saying you use wikipedia, and not dusting off the 4th edited revision of the 5th encyclopedia book (E to F)?Peter
- I actually had a digital subscription to Enc.Brit for a couple of years. Total waste of time and money).detritus
- I hae the full set of Children's Britannica when I was a kid too. Exciting little chap that I was..detritus