It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may decide to do without them again.
“Invisible technologies rule our lives, transmitting their data-loads at the speed of an electron. Vast cash balances move around the world’s banking systems, bounced off satellites we never see, but whose electromagnetic footprints bestride continents and form our real weather.”
J. G. Ballard | “Impressions of Speed”