Two Computers Connected
It seems to me that all the fears that the printed book will go back to the past by giving its place to any digital media and electronic devices do not have serious reasons. I am confident that, after a century, people will continue to turn to the traditional books. I am not accidentally synthesizing and talking about digital hosts and electronic devices. In recent decades, and even years, they have changed, so many more have emerged and become obsolete, which is not entirely correct to consider as " rivals " of a printed book only those that are popular today.
Not long ago, the best technical innovation was a diskette. Only 15 years ago, it was the most common storage medium. At that time, I moved some of the necessary but rarely used texts on the diskette. I've always had it under my hand, but I never needed it for a while. And in two or three years, I've been asked for these texts. I passed the diskette, and it turns out there's no computer in the entire four-stage school building that we came to on business issues that could be inserted. However, the traditional paper books of many years were sufficient. This is a very clear illustration of the fact that technological advances have made obsolete previous technological innovations, but not traditional books.
I know a number of examples when the authors were unable to re-establish their texts at all. The writer had an artistic idea, and he had started it, but for some reason it had to stop working on the text. He postponed it temporarily, intending to complete the work initiated later. But when it's time to resume work, it turns out she's missing with a broken computer, and the diskette she was retained is not read. So the paper manuscript may be more reliable.
I remember one important speech about the emergence of laser disks: " Here they are manuscripts that don't burn! " But computers and tablets and smartphones and any discs burn... Many have already faced the consequences of their confidence in technology, paying for the loss of important information. Everyone knows the situation: the technical device has broken down and is not recoverable, and the owner of the horror remembers that it and only it have all contacts, a lot of textwork, documents, images, materials for the portfolio that will be required for the work device today, and so on.
Electronic devices, which are now viewed as an alternative to the printing book, are confident that they will gradually recover as many other technological innovations in the last two centuries.
These are both pattephones and radios, and a variety of tape recorders: cattle, cluster, videos and a lot of other things. Some people complain: " I got a beautiful video on the cassettes (or a musical collection on disks), but now if the player breaks, it's no longer available for sale. " Outdated, even the most revolutionary technological innovations of the past decades, they are no longer released by manufacturers, replaced by others who will also turn to the duck. And our usual book with its centuries-old history will not lose its relevance despite technological progress. The printed book only improves, makes it even more attractive and informative. For example, the use of new technologies allows for the printing of multi-coloured illustrations in books for children, high-quality photographs in art books.
