Doug
Market theory used to say that we as customers would drive progress by our demands.
In the monopoly age, market theory says that big business can decide what it best for "it" and just do it, using "marketing" to show us how much better off we are.
For example: one of my credit cards recently shortened the time between invoice and payment by 10 days. On the invoice it had a happy message "The reason your payment date is now earlier is because you now have up to 45 days credit!" Well, I used to have up to 60 days credit. Wow, I'm so pleased by the happy change!
I'm hardly a conspiracy theorist, but that is certainly the way of it.
I vote for pixels winning out, just because it is cheaper. Paper will become a luxury option- sort of like hardback books vs softback.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
