I’m writing an essay on the death of physical media, and I came across this article on 6 dead technologies. Let’s take a look.

• Phone books. Who uses phone books any more? The over 70 crowd? Wasteful.
• MP3 Players. Your phone is going to do it all, at least until the robot takeover.
• DVDs. More useless plastic. Digital delivery is better in every way.
• Magazines, Catalogs and Newspapers. By the time something gets printed up on dead trees, it’s already been digested a million times online. The world is moving faster than the printed word. And shopping from a catalog these days just encourages the piles and piles of junk mail that comes every day. More waste.
• Video Games on Disc. Again, it’s a digital delivery world. Useless plastic is pointless.
• Cash. Dirty paper. More waste.

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