John,

>Doug
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>Market theory used to say that we as customers would drive progress by our demands.
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>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.
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>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!
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>I'm hardly a conspiracy theorist, but that is certainly the way of it.
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>I vote for pixels winning out, just because it is cheaper. Paper will become a luxury option- sort of like hardback books vs softback.
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>Regards
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>JR

Well, I don't suppose I really care one way or another in terms of 'winning' (and by inference 'losing') but I am still of the opinion that this will not happen as fast as one may think. Inertia and the fact that the world by far is hugely removed from we who live within our technological cocoons. <g> I'd think they'd rather have three square meals rather than a wonderful Internet-enabled electronic reading tablet that they have no power for and cannot eat. <g>