Are PDFs still going to be readable in 150 years? I have books that old in my library already.
The printed word will long outlive the propritary rights digital word by many generations.
If mankind moves too much into a “virtual” existence, written history will become lost to the ages.
As it stands now, newspaper publishers “revise” their articles (now AP and Washington Post are doing it without even NOTING that they corrected errors or toned down editorializing in news items) online and can eliminate the “tracks” that they’d ever said something different.
We know what we know because we can look back at the record. Liberals HATE being exposed for what they’ve said publicly in the past.
The one thing I cannot do is read a full book on a screen. I need to be able to physically touch the pages and smell the printed scent. Nothing is more wonderful to me than to be able to go through the pages of a book. The local used bookstore looks like it does quite well as far as customer base.