Where is the written word going? I've been working with computers since before there was a internet. In this bright new digital world, there is one thing we are seeing less and less of, the written word. EMail is replacing letters to family and friends. When we want to find out how to do something we turn to Google. Newspapers are shifting to digital media to stay alive. Now books are slowly becoming the next relic of a time gone by. Ebook readers can hold entire library's to read. The written word is now 1's and 0's. Printed books will eventually disappear because paper will become to expensive to produce. When this happens printed books will become a sort of currency. People will trade collections for goods and services more and more. Will our Great Great Grandchildren see newly printed books, no not in the amounts we currently see. Could a collection of Harlequin romance novels become a bargaining tool for a condo in Cabo San Lucas? Will Library's become banks? I can't see the future but this is one part that just might happen.
