Print is Dead; Well It's Terminal Anyway

Hackos and Stevens' Standards for Online Communication makes the claim that users (there's a term that I'm finding is over-used and ill-defined) don't want to read a lot of text online; that they'd rather read long text in paper form, so there should be a print option in electronic documentation (50). In addition, that printed material should be visually pleasing; to keep their attention. On the other hand, employers don't want to pay outrageous printing costs either to make printed documentation or from employees printing that visually pleasing, disposal media on the office printer. And that is why print is terminal, much like experienced employees over 40, it's just not cost-effective to continue using the medium. Not to mention new gen employees are more comfortable with multi-media anyway. But how are we going to replace paper and print? Sony's got the answer: