Muahaha.
I was surprised by how long tapes took to die off tho.
Ah, all th wonderful messy details!
Vinyl will take a lot longer, for religious reasons.
In Japan, i was surprised to see lots of brand new obsolete tech about,
(if you take my meaning).
Eg: audio casettes, DAT's, minidiscs etc, even saw an 8-track.
Apparently th avg nihonjin stops learning new tech in their 30's
just like most other ppls round th world,
but they expect to be able to keep buyin th same familar stuff
until death, it'd seem.

I think e-books will finally take off
when th nihonjin get to grips with polychromatic screens,
ie: something with th sheen of paper,
but with programmable "ink".
Emissive screens are fine for movies and games,
but for reading, they'r like staring into a lamp.
I'm imaginin a very simple tablet & stylus,
which you can curl up with on th couch
and pull files off yr house LAN.
They could even make versions with turnable pages
for die hard nostalgics.

In th mean time,
i do wish ppl'd stop tryin to emulate paper
by making sites with black txt on white bg - ouch!
Amber or green on black please!
Several generations of hackers can attest.