Library of the Future

[Michael Ming, Hung]

it does still need electricity, but books do not

At 05:42 PM 1998/10/8 -0500, you wrote:
>There is a new computer type product that is the size of a book and allows
>you to down load a book and read it page by page.  That may impact libraries
>in some way.  Michele
>
>Jay S. Rouman wrote:
>
>> "Futurists" have been predicting the demise of the book for most of this
>> decade--but publishing is at an all time high.  I think that we need to
>> remind the people who buy into this theory that the "futurists" of the
>> 1950's predicted that we would all be flying our personal helicopters to
>> work in 2000 and nuclear generated electricity would be so cheap that
>> they wouldn't bother with meters.  I doubt that the current crop is any
>> more accurate.
>>
>> Phil
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>> Philip Stohrer
>> Portage West Middle School
>> Portage, Michigan USA
>> pstohrer at edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu        http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~pstohrer
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