Re: Sec:Technology vs. print

[Bill Wallace <mds@RT66.COM>]

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>Kari:
>        When it comes to change, Never say Never. The device to which you
>refer was not a multi-media reader. Ten years ago who would have said that
>records would disappear over night. They did. Major newspapers as the
>Times and Post, are looking not more than 10 years of continued printing
>of papers as we know it today. The management at Knight-Ricter seems to
>think that it will be even less.
>Bill Wallace
>Cybrarian
>Manzano Day School
>Albuquerque, NM
>mds@rt66.com
>
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>>It seems to me that Sony many years ago came out with a device that would
>>allow readers to read materials off a disc-like object.  It dies before
>>it was born and was most recently seen selling for 2.98.  No - print will
>>not die at least not in our lifetime.  I love what the tech can do, but
>>books and other print materials still provide the most immediate and the
>>cheapest access to the world of ideas.  And remember - the first thing a
>>person does when he or she finds something of value when using a computer
>>source is to print it out.  Rather than a paperless society, we have
>>created a society that is using so much paper that its price has doubled
>>in a year.
>>
>>Kari Inglis   kbw_inglis@k12.mec.ohio.gov
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