Re: tlug: Printed media?? Who needs TeX?

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, John De Hoog wrote:

>Sometimes I worry about you people in academia. ;-) Don't you know by
>now that printed output is going the way of the typewriter, and that
>digital output on flat screens and publishing via the Internet are the
>direction the world is headed?

And that's why bookstores are filled with more computer books than ever
before, because computers are moving us toward a paperless paradigm, right?  I
remember people saying that 20 years ago, and they were just as wrong then as
they are now.  Lots of people of people still read paper computer magazines,
too.  And - dare I say it - there are hundreds of books that even teach people
to use HTML :-)

Electronic publishing is and will continue to be a great adjunct to print, but
it doesn't seem to be doing a very good job of killing it off yet.  That may
someday happen, but not someday soon.

Cheers,

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>
3Web Channel <URL: http://www.3web.co.jp/index.en.html>

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