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KayeStar
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I love technology as much as the next person, but I’m going to be sad when libraries and video game stores become 100% digital and the buildings go out of business. I like filling my shelves.
I'm going to miss collecting DVDs too. I wonder how long until the ones I have become obsolete and unusable.
I'm going to miss collecting DVDs too. I wonder how long until the ones I have become obsolete and unusable.
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I'll be sad when all those are gone too though, technology has definitely changed the way we get our entertainment, for research too. When I was in college the internet was still fairly new and we did most of our research by book! It would be sooo easy now compared to then! No need to go to the library it's all right there from your home!
The bookstores too still seem popular, it's always busy when I go. Even our independents are hanging on (aside from one, but that was before ebooks were a major enough thing anyway). I really hope it stays that way, but I think it will for a while yet, they seem in absolutely no rush to go anywhere. Isn't Amazon even thinking of opening up brick and mortar bookstores? I'm pretty sure I've read somewhat recently they are, so I think we're okay there for a while yet. Digital books may be very popular but there's still a huge market for physical books.
Video games I think the death of physical copies is soon though. I don't care tons about that though, I prefer physical but I hardly play games besides sims (and even then I ended with TS3, unless things change) So meh. And digital has had it's advantages for me when I've lost my discs, though TS3's setup was nice of getting the digital copy if you registered so you could have the discs but still have the backup digital if you need it.
Though I do care some because I worry about how many jobs it takes away. I know some will just get moved around to run the websites and stuff, but I imagine it takes a lot of jobs away still. In a world where there aren't enough jobs as it is, that's what bugs me. But I don't care about missing some of this stuff from my collection. I do like a physical copy of a favourite book hanging around my shelves, but otherwise meh.
Although things like books, comic books, and movies, I don't want to see go away. Although I don't read much, I do enjoy collecting some books, and I'm definitely a collector of comic books and DVDs/Blu-Rays. I just like the feeling of going through my movie collection and knowing that I own physical copies of great movies that I love. Same goes for comic books, although because there are so many that come out/that have come out, I really only collect the ones that hold big importance in comic book history (the issue where Bane broke Batman's back, the issue where Hal Jordan was taken over by Parallax, and he nearly destroyed the entire Green Lantern Corps, etc) or just for the covers I really like.
I'm kind of half and half on newspapers. On the one hand, I rarely ever read them. On the other, if I have one for the day, every once in a while, it is nice to just sit down and read the paper with some morning coffee. Though, honestly, I think it's just more worth phasing them out, as well.
My W/list: http://store.thesims3.com/myWishlist.html?persona=rosey1579
> I love technology as much as the next person, but I’m going to be sad when libraries and video game stores become 100% digital and the buildings go out of business. I like filling my shelves.
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> I'm going to miss collecting DVDs too. I wonder how long until the ones I have become obsolete and unusable. :disappointed:
The problem is that with technological advancement, density and capacity requirements increase exponentially but this doesn't mean that you should discard the media type if you prefer it. Optical storage methods are standard regardless of the product label so just upgrade to high density optical storage media and condense your archive. You can then add the developer's extras and media publications to your collections as well.
I sometimes forget those once existed despite having a large collection as a kid
I did order this online, so clearly, I'm not opposed to technology itself. But it means more to me that I can hold it.
I still have a special love for all the old VHS movies my mom still has from when my sister and I were kids. She used to buy all the Disney movies that came out. I also remember her taking us to a small video store in the area, and we would pick up pretty unknown-at-the-time gems. She still has the old VHS of "My Neightbor Totoro" we got when it was no where near as popular as it is now in the US. Was released by 20th Century Fox back then, instead of Disney like it is now, lol.
She still loves collecting the Disney movies now, only she's moved onto Blu-Ray
Perhaps if we stop using so many gadgets, use less electricity, there'd be less of an issue.
At least until fossil fuels are fully a thing of the past.
Personally I love paper books. They don't make my eyes sore, or give me headaches like screens do.