When will this meme die?

when it stops being more fun

>>9134966
they will still exist in 400 years. but they will become different, digital transformation, augmented reality, virtual reality, 3-D-digitalisation, free thinking, solidarity and concentration. also the humanities still produce lots of real books. it will still take hundreds of years until everything that is analog today has become digitally available. and after that, the libraries will become terminals for digital info.

>>9135006
What you're describing sounds like some gay internet cafe
fag

hopefully never libraries are the pillar of society

it's the only place left in the public sphere that promotes the activities of silence. we need libraries more than ever.

What could replace them? Giving everybody a generic reading tablet instead of a library card and full access to the library contents?

But at that point, there's no need to actually have a physical building. Just a website.

I think the biggest problem is copyright laws, though. Publishers can't do anything about lending out a printed book but they can block libraries from trying to release digital copies of books.

>>9135016
don't come then, and enjoy your hetero masturbation

>>9135035
not everyone has a home that is suited for study, anon.

>>9135035
>Publishers can't do anything about lending out a printed book
lol this guy

>>9135047
In the united states, if you buy a book you OWN that book. They can't stop you from giving it to somebody else

>>9135035
lol i already do this
i just like the library because it's quiet

>>9135049
>an individual with 5 books is legally the same as an entire hangar sized unit solely dedicated to lending books
lol this guy

Nothing can replace libraries. But technology can eliminate them.

>>9135035
have u ever seen the matrix

think about it

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>>9135006
Your fucking retarded. Kill yourself. Amazon is opening physical bookstores now because people are buying more physical books instead of digital ebooks. Fact.

>>9135248
That's because they want to domiante more markets anon.

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>>9135045
You live with a fucked up family in a borderline ghetto in everything but name place like me?

>>9134966
Show me one very cultured person that made all of his reading from digital sources and i will personally burn every library

>>9135022
>promotes the activities of silence
Not in my experience.
You have lots of people in a small space and many don't give a fuck about how loud they are. If you complain to the library personal they just tell you that they won't throw anyone out because they don't want to look racist.

>>9135925
Lol at the low iq retards who have to read EVERYTHING aloud, i've seen it happen

>>9135925
yeah i mean it's completely fucked now but it's not supposed to be. we have to get our silence back somehow.

>>9135925
Sounds like you're still in high school

>>9135937
both universities that i've studied at have had terrible library culture. it should be -silent- in a library.

>>9134966
When will you Lrn2meme?

>>9135006
Yeah, just like we still produce many clay tablets and scrolls.

>>9136029
no but we keep those we still have and study them

>>9136036
They aren't a living medium anymore.

>>9134966
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/28/two-dead-four-injured-in-shooting-at-new-mexico-library/
it did today, again

>>9135934
>>9135941
Go to the silent floors

>>9136038

Neither is your mom

>>9136036
We still have them, but we copy them into superior mediums and study those.
Just like printed on paper books will be in museums, and people will read their digital copies.
With the efficiency of modern batteries it is literally wasteful of space and trees (and thus clean water) to print and buy and own books.

>>9136048
no. a book is more or less climate neutral. digital media creates tons of pollution.

>>9136083
A book requires that trees are cut with engine chainsaws, are trucked to a place, are processed, are trucked to another place, are made into paper, are trucked to another place, are made into books, are trucked to another place, are sold to shops, are trucked to shops, are sold to you.
Thats a lot of trucking, because its a physical thing that has to be physically moved, rather than downloaded.

>>9136086
digital media requires nuclear power plant, that in turn needs even more trucking and also creates barren wastelands where the uranium is mined and where the reactor goes off

>>9136048
It's more difficult for the brain to synthesize information coming from lit-up screens than it is for them to synthesize information reflected from natural lighting

>>9136087
>this abhorrent post
I accept your surrender, hopefully you are more graceful in defeat in the future.

>>9136088
Interesting if true, link studies and meta survey.
Also, I dislike when people say we "evolved" to read from books, when reading in general is absolutely not what we are made for and its unnatural as fuck. Hopefully you aren't going that way.

>>9136088
Although Amazon has a book reader which doesn't utilize a backlight. So there's that option which would be good, more ecologically conservative. Ecologically superior without risking pragmatic inferiority

>>9136092
>Although Amazon has a book reader which doesn't utilize a backlight.

It optionally can, and I do use some light when reading. You can adjust levels.

>>9136091
I found pseudo-scientific evidence supporting it, but then read a research abstract on a UCLA.pdf claiming there's no significant difference. Sorry to've put false info

>>9136091
I'm quite content with my performance, too. it wasn't easy to get down in your level in the first place, but then I was even able to get even farther beyond. With my form of the day, I could easily banter down everyone on the chans today.

Now tell me how I should read a fucking anatomy atlas on a monochrome reader or on a tiny tablet?

Yeh, we should store all of the information we'd like to keep for a long time on electronic devices that are lucky to still be working after a decade, in electronic formats that change with the whims of fashion and aren't guaranteed to be readable even in 50 years.

>>9134966
Always because you can't hack or virus wipe a book stupid.

>>9135930
bah get off my ass. I do it a lot but only when im alone. Otherwise my birdbrain gets bored and starts wandering off into porn territory.

>>9134966

Everything related to natural language processing has been losing importance since the onset of industrial revolution. I suppose the ongoing information revolution will end any residual importance of linguistics and humanities and diminish the relevance of verbal intelligence to a minimum.