How will the internet change our lives going forward....

[Mpsox]

I disagree. Not only about books, but also about PCs with keyboards. They'll still be used for years to come.

Amazon are selling more electronic downloads then physical books in the US, book stores are closing all over the world (Waterstones as an example in Dublin). Cloud computing will mean there will be no need for massive storage space and disks on a PC. Already more and more people are using wireless technology and you can get wireless printers as well.

I'm not saying I like it, just the way things are going. Books and laptops will become an "old" persons thing, just like CDs instead of downloads

 

[horusd]

Nooooooo!!! Blasphemy!!!

I agree. I love the smell of books and I tend to write across mine. Sentences that I like, ideas that are deep, interesting, odd or funny. I'll live with the old fogey epithet.

 

[Shawady]

They said this about Bebo 5 years ago. My sense is that FB will go the way of Bebo when the current generation of teens move on to something else.

Some evidence of that here.

http://www.independent.ie/business/...tigue-6-million-us-users-log-out-2674120.html