Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

Writing on the SciFi Channel’s blog, Adam Frucci has a funny posting in form of a “eulogy for physical media.” The posting is being delivered in 2010, when pretty much all physical media is, well, “dead” (check out the accompanying graphic which shows CDs and cassettes as headstones). I of course agree that these various forms of media will be, if not extinct in a few more years, certain endangered species. But to add the “print is dead” wrinkle to the mix, I’d say that books should be mentioned in there somewhere as well.

Excerpt: “You had a good run, physical media, and we’ll miss you. There was something so comforting about having something to hold in your hands to represent that album or movie you loved so much, but progress has no need for sentimentality. So we lay you down to rest and hope that you went peacefully, happy in knowing that you did your jobs to the best of your ability. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”

A eulogy for physical media