> There may be economic and environmental reasons to go paperless. But there's clearly something important that would be lost with print's demise
The argument put forth in the article is fundamentally flawed. They're assuming that "screens" has a fixed meaning, to mean what it's like now.
But we're actually at very early stages of reading content off screens, and there's a lot of scope of that experience to change in the future. Better displays, better ways to interact with the content, better ways to annotate the content, better ways to deal with distractions on the device, etc etc.
Maybe in the end we'll discover print is definitively better, but we are currently a long way from being able to make that claim.
The argument put forth in the article is fundamentally flawed. They're assuming that "screens" has a fixed meaning, to mean what it's like now.
But we're actually at very early stages of reading content off screens, and there's a lot of scope of that experience to change in the future. Better displays, better ways to interact with the content, better ways to annotate the content, better ways to deal with distractions on the device, etc etc.
Maybe in the end we'll discover print is definitively better, but we are currently a long way from being able to make that claim.