Re: tlug: Printed media?? Who needs TeX?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> >I'm sure Gates was thinking similarly when he said that 640k should be
> >enough for anyone... I'm sure he thought, "Well, maybe SOMEDAY they'll
> >need more, but not anytime soon..."
> 
> Bill Gates never said that, it's just an urban legend.  People have been
> talking this "books are gonna disappear any day now" kind of stuff for a very
> long time, and it's no where near happening.  It will be many years before
> that even starts to happen.  So far, the number of books published keeps going
> up and up, and if somebody does develop a worthwhile technology for electronic
> books (there isn't any now), guess what the first thing that will happen is?
> Somebody will write a paper book about it :-)

This surprises me, Jonathan - I thought you'd be more of the 'Save the
Trees' type, which, I would think would favor electronic media.  Then
again, electronic media requires 'chemicals' (I love the way that
environmentalists use the phrase 'chemicals' .. :) ) to make the plastics
and glass and stuff involved with devices to read electronic media...


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