That being said, as electronics become more entrenched in our everyday lives it will become more and more about efficiency and expediency that drives the electronic movement. I love Franzen’s take and I think it’s valid, that nothing can take the place of the tangible act of reading paper books, but I can see a distant future where the “idea cloud” of the internet decimating how we once looked at them. Kids will laugh at you, you’ll feel ashamed shackled to the past like some dinosaur, guilty to be a speedbump on the road of progress, not to mention selfishly sucking down natural resources.

I do find it interesting that our generation sits at a crossroads as Mike’s “insubstantial idea transfer machine” changes everything we ever did.