Unpopular Opinions Society

[Freesia]

Are you sure that you can differentiate between those two all the time?

Most of the time, but not always. You can tell when a person is a generally good person but then expresses a douchey opinion. But other times there are people who have shown a history of enjoying insulting and hurting people. There is a difference.

 

[sequoia]

Potato chips should be considered an acceptable meal while on a juice fast.

 

[sequoia]

Men are bigger drama queens than women.

 

[FortyTwo]

People who dwell on the past annoy me. Specifically, past technologies. I think there's a certain sentimentality about things that needs to go out the window if we're to progress as a species.

Things like letter writing, paper books, the "absolute necessity" of face-to-face contact for human relationships, factory farming (obviously), the superiority of human labor, and high regards for organized religion are all obsolete. I know that sounds exactly like something that someone of my generation would say, and, well, hey, that's the point! That's okay! Things are evolving. So when people stick around on the past, on ways of doing things that are costly to us or the planet, I get annoyed.

 

[ledboots]

Paper books :cries:

 

[kibbleforlola]

People who dwell on the past annoy me. Specifically, past technologies. I think there's a certain sentimentality about things that needs to go out the window if we're to progress as a species.

Things like letter writing, paper books, the "absolute necessity" of face-to-face contact for human relationships, factory farming (obviously), the superiority of human labor, and high regards for organized religion are all obsolete. I know that sounds exactly like something that someone of my generation would say, and, well, hey, that's the point! That's okay! Things are evolving. So when people stick around on the past, on ways of doing things that are costly to us or the planet, I get annoyed.

Paper books will never, ever go out of print. True bibliophiles will never get the same rush from anything else.

 

[FortyTwo]

Paper books will never, ever go out of print. True bibliophiles will never get the same rush from anything else.

Yeah, you're probably right about that, but I hope that they die out to the point of obscurity. Or at least to the point where we aren't printing millions upon millions of them every year.

 

[kibbleforlola]

Yeah, you're probably right about that, but I hope that they die out to the point of obscurity. Or at least to the point where we aren't printing millions upon millions of them every year.

Have you ever heard of the three R's?

 

[FortyTwo]

Have you ever heard of the three R's?

Can't last forever. Only so much comes back each time.

 

[kibbleforlola]

Can't last forever. Only so much comes back each time.

Sorry dude. Books will always be in print, and lots of them. I don't know what to tell you.

 

[FortyTwo]

Sorry dude. Books will always be in print, and lots of them. I don't know what to tell you.

Wanna bet?

ETA: Meh, I sorta agree. You're probably right that there will always be books in print. I just seriously hope that the number decreases dramatically.

I like paper books, and I have quite a few of them, but I don't think they're the right way to go, or the best.

 

[kibbleforlola]

Wanna bet?

Yeah. I'll bet whatever you like. In fact, I'd bet that paper money goes out of print before books do.

 

[Spang]

Books survived the radio, television, video games and the Internet, and they will survive eBooks.

 

[Spang]

Also, vinyl records are still a thing, despite MP3s.

 

[FortyTwo]

Edited my post while you were typing yours. Sorry.

Also, yes! I hope paper money goes out of print as well.

I just feel that, if you can digitize everything, have gigantic libraries in the palm of your hand, why not do it and save the space and paper? There's so much potential. And in the end, despite the sentimental feeling, it truly is just a collection of words. It can invoke the same emotion whether on paper, on a computer screen, on a tablet screen, or, hell, on a hologram, I guess. Though that would be kind-of a weird way to read things.

The same with money. A very secure and polished system could easily digitize that no problem. Of course, we'd have the issue of people trying to cheat their way around it, but people do that today with physical money.

 

[FortyTwo]

Books survived the radio, television, video games and the Internet, and they will survive eBooks.

The radio is a bunch of light waves translated into sound. Not text (unless you're getting into encryption and whatnot). It was never meant to replace books. Nor was television, or the internet. A sufficient tablet easily functions just as a book does, if not with more potential.

 

[Spang]

The radio is a bunch of light waves translated into sound. Not text (unless you're getting into encryption and whatnot). It was never meant to replace books. Nor was television, or the internet. A sufficient tablet easily functions just as a book does, if not with more potential.

Books and eBooks will coexist.

 

[FortyTwo]

Books and eBooks will coexist.

Yes, they do and likely will. Like I said, it's not probable, I just hope that they become as unpopular as possible because we produce so much crap that we shouldn't be keeping around archaic methods if we don't have to.

Also, vinyl records are cool! They're a legitimate art form, as are books. That doesn't mean they should be produced today. They've been made obsolete. That's also why VHS tapes aren't widely made anymore (though I do have some of those, and I don't hate them).

 

[Spang]

Also, vinyl records are cool! They're a legitimate art form, as are books. That doesn't mean they should be produced today. They've been made obsolete.

Many audiophiles would beg to differ.

 

[FortyTwo]

Many audiophiles would beg to differ.

Are records produced today on a massive scale?