While digging through the archive today I discovered that the end of books was predicted not just recently because of new technology giving us ebooks but that the prediction goes even farther back than that. Apparently in 1894 there was a prediction that the end of books was nigh because of a new technology: audio books.
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| Manufacturing Books |
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| The Binding of the Future. (Tubes de luxe.) |
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| The Automatic Library. |
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| Phonographic Literature for the Promenade. |
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| The Author Exploiting His Own Works. |
To read the whole article, check out the link on the
Internet Archive.
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