Did you read the Sunday paper today? If you answered yes then you are 1of 23% of consumers who still read the tangible Sunday paper. Although it's been discussed several times before, print is still a option and will possibly always be a option for newspaper. I mean let's face it.. statistics change and so do people. A while back I was contributing to a discussion post about things going digital. Looking around at the World today, its a no-brainer that all things all going digital, but at the same time, a lot of things are still the same.
Personally, I do 97% of projects and media digitally, such as magazines, books, and music. However I still purchase cd albums, I am still subscribed to magazines, and I still appreciate a hard back every now and then. Without a doubt the World around us is primarily digital, and there will be more to come, but with all of this digital technology there will still be the original way of doing things. Take mail for instance, many people believed that once email was created, regular mail would be non-existent and people still rely on the mail system weekly as a means of sending and receiving, not just mail, but everything. Digital contents are convenient but it won't wipe off the physical, and tangible things in life.
Moreover, it seems as if majority of society realizes that everything is going digital. Check out this Youtube video "Everything We Touch Turns Digital" by Burke W.
A article that was written in 2005, Totally Digital was expressing the ideas of everything going digital and used photos as an example. Once upon a time having photos printed was a process that involved a chemicals, a actual camera, and a lot of other things that we are not sure of. Fast forward to today, to apps like instagram, and services like cvs photo center... just to name a few, and not to mention wireless printing.
The World has evolved, thats a fact, but I think we will always have physical libraries and book stores. True enough record stores are a thing of the past, and you may find a vintage music store here and there, but music is forever, and history repeats itself. So just as the music stores cease to exists, they may come back with more digital content along with physical cd's.
Reference:
Florina, Carly. Totally Digital, (2005) http://www.economist.com/node/3372202 retrieved December 17. 2014
