Book to the future: Paper’s final chapter has yet to be written
FORECASTS of the demise of the printed word are nothing new. Its most recent nemesis, the rise of Amazon and its vast library of ebooks, coupled with the screen addiction of the millennial generation, has threatened paper books with extinction within decades.
All the experts — from historians to technologists, anthropologists to novelists — voiced their assurance that we are witnessing the end of an age that began with Gutenberg’s Bible in the mid-fifteenth century.
