better mousetrap

So there's this new media out that everybody says is THE END OF READING / PUBLISHING / THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (again). Why do people always say shit like this, every time? Are they living in the 1800's or something? Because, back then, when new stuff like this came along, it was (sometimes), indeed, the end of the old way, but usually because the old way really sucked. Cars caught on because trains were slow, smelly, and inconvenient. However, people still take trains, because some of them like it. Penicillin caught on because it kept you from dying, not because it was 'the newest thing.' These new ways of reading are like the former, not the latter, and I wish everybody would stop jostling to be at the front of the prediction line about the Death Of Everything Right-Thinking People Hold Dear.

Also, when those breathless seers wake up and realize that all this stuff is just a new way to liberate people from their money: I TOLD YOU SO.