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

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

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

>I'm sure Gates was thinking similarly when he said that 640k should be
>enough for anyone... I'm sure he thought, "Well, maybe SOMEDAY they'll
>need more, but not anytime soon..."

Bill Gates never said that, it's just an urban legend.  People have been
talking this "books are gonna disappear any day now" kind of stuff for a very
long time, and it's no where near happening.  It will be many years before
that even starts to happen.  So far, the number of books published keeps going
up and up, and if somebody does develop a worthwhile technology for electronic
books (there isn't any now), guess what the first thing that will happen is?
Somebody will write a paper book about it :-)

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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