@VideCorSpoon,
the university coffee bar is probably given out as a contract job to some alumni's relative-like dick cheney or somebody equally as deserving and responsible.
and when your grandchildren see you reading a book one day and ask 'what's that?' then you will know-that is how it happens. they grow up never having seen a book, so it isnt like anybody really ever let go of books or forgot about them. they just slowly cease to exist. like the horse drawn carriages i see where i live, the kites children play with in empty lots, the empty lots themselves, and the people who sit outside on their porch and the neighbors who stroll by and stop and sit for tea and a chat. i see it all disappearing before their eyes ...
what about the feel of natural wood? you know, that stuff things were made out of before plastic happened? what about the sound of unamplified musical instruments?
nobody cares about the good old days, going forward...only the people that remember them and they too will be forgotten.
a long time ago, there was a television commercial with a talking head in a box-that is what humanity evolved into supposedly because there was no more need in the far distant future for a body. i dont remember what the commercial was about, maybe exercise. but dancing...singing...these things are no more a part of life in america, at least not among the people that i lived around back there.
star trek and the replicator-instant artificially contrived food that tastes perfect every time. never break an egg or smell bacon sizzling in the pan-nevver hope it turns out right...never take out the trash or wash the dishes...i guess it is only a point of view. whatever we grew up with we think is normal and when it gets replaced, like it always will, we are sad. would we even know if we lost something of value?
is this thread really only about books?