New developments in technology cause very often the dying of an old technology. The car replaced the carriage, the phone replaced the telegraf.
It's hard to see old technology dying. Mostly, the old technology survives in a niche, carriages are still run in Vienna for tourists, the old vinyl still has its lovers.
When talking about emerging technology many people so the newspaper as the next dying media, killed by the faster, multimedia newspages in the web.
Newspaper Extinction Timeline
We'll see if they are write, but with technology like the iPad and the eReaders maybe noone will really miss the old, big format newspaper...
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