No premature burial, please ...

... The power of paper in a digital era | Robert McCrum | Books | guardian.co.uk. (Hat tip Dave Lull.)

I've often written on this blog about the resilience of old media, and the tenacity of ink and paper. There's a precedent for this from the era of Caxton and Gutenberg. The moveable type of the 1460s and 70s certainly made a communications revolution, but manuscript scribes and vellum documents survived long into the 16th century, and beyond.