Uh, no. Physical objects have beauty. And value. You keep them, treasure them, look at them, collect them, hold them, AND ACTUALLY READ THEM. Because you're invested in them. They comprise your intellectual history, and when someone wants to know WHO you are, you can actually lay your hands on the book and show them. That tactile quality -- the REALITY of it -- stands for something. Would you consider yourself married to someone you only know online, or would you want actually to live with them?
@@alexphillips4644 Okay, Alex. There's no way to tell. And with the decline in reading and in literacy, generally, and the death of bookstores -- and with more and more of our lives being conducted online -- that's a sentiment that's increasingly broadly held.
This was edited for a presentation to show an example of how IT and business people talk to each other. That was the point. No disrespect to the genius of the Marx Brothers.
