Next to die!!!!!!!
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sebboh said:
The book will never truly die, it's been ingrained upon our culture since the Renaissance. While school textbooks will eventually go away,(my school has already let us download some books to a flash drive) the novel will stay with us till the end of Western civilization. The reason inanimate things "die" is because they're not missed. The CD gave way to the MP3 because no one had any real sentimental attachment to it. Records are still more precious to us than casettes because it had a certain "feel" to it. When the last textbook thankfully falls to whatever portable media player we use, the novel will stay with us, safely locked away in a little cavern it's been carving out in our hearts for centuries.
While I agree the book will never die, our definition of "book" may change radically in the next couple of years. I'm pretty sure book readers, similar in function (but not appearance) to WiFi-MP3 players are right around the corner. Once the display is as comfortable to read as ink on paper and the interface is as convenient as turning pages, the ability to access any book you want, when you want, will outweigh our cultural bias. The technology's more or less here, so my guess is the book publishing industry doesn't want to move out of the 16th century. Book readers aren't any use if book publishers don't want to provide content.John Galt said:
I'm guessing the land-line phones. I've even heard people say it's a good way to save money, cause cell-phones are cheaper and much more used.
Scary, you know what else is, New Zealend kids are allowed to use text terms on examsKnight Templar said:
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5 exclamation marks, the sign of a twisted mind.
I'd say... home telephones. It's so much cheaper and easier to just text or use cellphones, not to mention that 2/3rd of the communication programs like Skype have both VoIP and camera support.
Hell, my mom used to talk with my aunt in America using... Oh God, what was that program? Anyhow, it'd be too expensive to talk on the phone, either cordless or not.
I'd say... home telephones. It's so much cheaper and easier to just text or use cellphones, not to mention that 2/3rd of the communication programs like Skype have both VoIP and camera support.
Hell, my mom used to talk with my aunt in America using... Oh God, what was that program? Anyhow, it'd be too expensive to talk on the phone, either cordless or not.
I would kind of argue that 'lol' has become a word in it's own right. Considering our text-based social interaction world of today it becomes hard for the common person to recognise when someone is using sarcasm for example.Knight Templar said:
I think it helps to acertain the general tone of someones conversation, so it's use no longer annoys me. That said all of the 'lol' clones like 'rofl' etc need to die out... NOW!
I'm guessing you've heard of Ebooks then? *grimaces*... so unnatural!MaxTheReaper said:
Blue-ray is already taking over. The new edition of Pinocchio is coming out in "Blue-Ray" with the Special Edition DVD as a bonus.
Your heard me right, the commercial says you buy the Blue-Ray and as an added bonus you get a Dvd. It's subtle conditioning to buy the Blue-ray before the actual DVD.
...or at lest that's what I think it said...
They are confusing my mind D=
Your heard me right, the commercial says you buy the Blue-Ray and as an added bonus you get a Dvd. It's subtle conditioning to buy the Blue-ray before the actual DVD.
...or at lest that's what I think it said...
They are confusing my mind D=
Ipod docks and speakers. I predict that they'll have built an ipod with tiny speakers that can play just as well as a massive stereo system. Hang on, have they already done this with the Ipod touch?
