Even the livery stables exist in parts of the Andes. I saw an ice plant out in east Texas in 2009.
You can find 8 track tapes and slide rules if you look hard. There are Caribbean cruises with three masted clippers, for that matter.
But all these things are never going to be viable in every small city again.
In 1998, when I first began collecting electronic books (with a complete set of The Shadow novels in .pdf electronic books were a niche item. Today things have reversed. I do not expect a second reversal.
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.