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The Future
What are books?
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#3
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yourmomtotherescue **User deleted account** (12/15/2012) [+]
(5 replies)
headphones with antennas in 2025?
#43
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aclopolipse (12/15/2012) [+]
(4 replies)
Audiobooks threatened to replace books when they were invented more than 15 years ago. They didn't even come close.
Now people point to the fall of print journalism as a sort of death knell for all of print media, and they could not be more wrong. Print journalism fell because it thrives on quick and accurate reporting of information concerning recent events, and to do so, someone needed to hear the news, interview someone about it, go to their journalistic agency, have the story written, and then get it printed. The point was to have information about the news distributed as quickly as possible, and that's something that the Internet is undoubtedly better at doing.
Contrast books, which are meant to store information that is not generally bound by a time period. In a reference section of a library, you may not find out who won the 1947 match between the Yankees and the Cubs, but what you will find is the history of nations long gone, the wonders of both past and present scientific enterprise, and the culmination of thousands of our species' greatest scholars, philosophers, innovators, rhetors, and scientists.
The book is an immortal testament to the collaboration of knowledge among allies, and even sometimes among enemies. The book will persist, because if it were to die, we would lose sight of who we are as the Milky Way's only sentient race. Our identity would be compromised, and no amount of iKindle 4,526Gs or Audio Books could ever fill that gap.
I am Aclopolipse, and I support books.
inb4 you're a buttmad librarian
Now people point to the fall of print journalism as a sort of death knell for all of print media, and they could not be more wrong. Print journalism fell because it thrives on quick and accurate reporting of information concerning recent events, and to do so, someone needed to hear the news, interview someone about it, go to their journalistic agency, have the story written, and then get it printed. The point was to have information about the news distributed as quickly as possible, and that's something that the Internet is undoubtedly better at doing.
Contrast books, which are meant to store information that is not generally bound by a time period. In a reference section of a library, you may not find out who won the 1947 match between the Yankees and the Cubs, but what you will find is the history of nations long gone, the wonders of both past and present scientific enterprise, and the culmination of thousands of our species' greatest scholars, philosophers, innovators, rhetors, and scientists.
The book is an immortal testament to the collaboration of knowledge among allies, and even sometimes among enemies. The book will persist, because if it were to die, we would lose sight of who we are as the Milky Way's only sentient race. Our identity would be compromised, and no amount of iKindle 4,526Gs or Audio Books could ever fill that gap.
I am Aclopolipse, and I support books.
inb4 you're a buttmad librarian
#55
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swiftykidd (12/15/2012) [+]
(1 reply)
2025
-Using devices which require antennae
-Using an orange brick instead of a smartphone
-No google glasses or anything like that
I doubt that this is even 1990
-Using devices which require antennae
-Using an orange brick instead of a smartphone
-No google glasses or anything like that
I doubt that this is even 1990
#12
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askafj (12/15/2012) [+]
(1 reply)
He is holding a stick?
Goddamn, kids aren't even doing that today anymore.
Goddamn, kids aren't even doing that today anymore.
#33
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newant (12/15/2012) [+]
(2 replies)
It's hard to replace books.
I remember a kid back in my 4th grade (1999) preaching that audio recorders are soon to replace books.
As much as people like to think books are becoming obsolete, they really aren't.
I remember a kid back in my 4th grade (1999) preaching that audio recorders are soon to replace books.
As much as people like to think books are becoming obsolete, they really aren't.
#27
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hipsophobadon (12/15/2012) [-] If I ever see a kid poking a book with a stick dead serious not sure what it is, I will pick up the book and explain that it's a torture device, and proceed to beat him with it.
#29
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funmanigro (12/15/2012) [-]
i lold
the last 31 times ive seen it. Also this post is as bad as the "thumbs up if you know what this (VCR tape) was used for!" posts, ok, we fucking get it, you were born in 1998 now shut the fuck up.
the last 31 times ive seen it. Also this post is as bad as the "thumbs up if you know what this (VCR tape) was used for!" posts, ok, we fucking get it, you were born in 1998 now shut the fuck up.
#20
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danmanscan (12/15/2012) [-] I can imagine the remnants of the past looking down at the books and going like this because the kids now don't like to read either.
#53
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thisotherdude (12/15/2012) [+]
(1 reply)
>Implying we'll ever get rid of books, too many people still enjoy physical books (out of the minority that still reads for fun that is), even in 500 years we'll still have them in large numbers simply because many people prefer to read off physical paper rather then screens.
#22
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TheIllusiveMan (12/15/2012) [-] I store books like a motherfucker.
Fuck the classics, fuck even the books I like...
But in my crawlspace is a converted wine storage area.
So, since their is filtered air, and low light, I store in covers mechanical books,
technical books, medical, and other things related.
Fuck the classics, fuck even the books I like...
But in my crawlspace is a converted wine storage area.
So, since their is filtered air, and low light, I store in covers mechanical books,
technical books, medical, and other things related.
