It does seem that the trend that information is following is moving towards purely digital information. Textbooks and regular books can now be bought and read online, with every one of them safely stored and accessible by any computer with an internet connection. Even books on tape and cd have gone out of date, surrendering to mp3 downloads of your favorite book.
Looking at how far digital media has come, is it really possible to go much further? Once all information is digital and accessible by internet, what next will become digital? Will buildings, besides housing, become obsolete? Libraries buildings certainly will, even in the near future. With communication entering the video chat realm of instant communication, it seems that going to a workplace in which physical human interaction may become unnecessary and costly. It could quite possibly be that this, the new digital world, might overthrow and destroy that, the old world of physical information.
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