Is print dead?

[zugschef]

(because bureaucracy hadn't caught up to tech yet).

Because that's actually the safer way of data processing.

[Roxoff]

My wife worked in a routing center for a couple years, she said the same thing.

...

You know what I was just thinking? You can't beat someone to death with an ebook. As ebooks become more prominent, I think "novelty" doorstopper books will probably soar in value -- particularly among the poorly educated. They will then take their rightful place beside the baseball bat as the most common murder weapon.


--Dither

Makes me chuckle.  You're right, of course - and you can't stop the table wobbling by stuffing a PDF underneath its one short leg.  I predict three legged tables in the future...

[kitep]

And you can't hollow out a pdf to hide things in it.

Or put your secret room behind a pdf-case.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Yeah, a book can be used as an Improvised Weapon.

Pixels do what, maybe [light] damage if at all?

Old Monitors do Radiance damage.
New Monitors + Level 0 Hypnosis = Cross-Eyed flaw, spot -2 penalty.