Matthew Moore of The Daily Telegraph has a list of fifty technological or cultural features being eroded or eliminated by the Internet. Here are a few samples. What would you add to the list?
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1) The art of polite disagreement
While the inane spats of YouTube commencers may not be representative, the internet has certainly sharpened the tone of debate. The most raucous sections of the blogworld seem incapable of accepting sincerely held differences of opinion; all opponents must have "agendas"....
3) Listening to an album all the way through
The single is one of the unlikely beneficiaries of the internet – a development which can be looked at in two ways. There's no longer any need to endure eight tracks of filler for a couple of decent tunes, but will "album albums" like Radiohead's Amnesiac get the widespread hearing they deserve?...
22) Enforceable copyright
The record companies, film studios and news agencies are fighting back, but can the floodgates ever be closed?...
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The internet ISN'T killing trees to make newspapers, paper, christmas cards, envelopes, etc.... and it's doing those same things faster and more efficiently.
However, I do agree that technology as a whole and specifically the internet are changing our lives. Specifically, newspapers and magazines are on the way out because the internet is instantaneous.
When people say, Oh, no one will READ anymore, we're producing nations of illiterates. What? The internet is ALL about reading! And reading! And more reading!
People are reading The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times, that would never have read them before.
The internet asserts the primacy and durability and yes, necessity, of this activity . . .
And how many more hours daily is your typical horndog guy devoting to online porn, now that he doesn't have to actually go out and purchase a magazine or DVD from a clerk?
I love the internet, but it's a mixed bag.
And i for one still buy vinyl albums at a real life record shop, thank you very much (I also buy music online).
Interestingly about #13, Memory... written word was looked down upon by ancient Greek orators.