A formal goodbye

At this point, the die has been cast.  Over the last ten years the world has changed from print-intensive to digital-file-intensive.  If I "write a note" to someone, it is by text or email - a digital file. In two more years, texting will be only for those who learned how to text and capped their knowledge of how to use technology at that point. Most new cars being sold today can change text to voice if you receive a text while driving or change your own voice to text to send to someone.  But, the next step is already on the rise.  A lot of people even now use video messages, such as Glide, Tango, Skype, Hangouts, ooVoo, Peer, and iVideo, to send short messages.  Even if you don't want to send messages, people like to have fun by sharing their experiences.  SnapChat knows this and sells glasses that record 10 seconds of video of whatever you are looking at, stores it in the cloud, and sends it to anyone by voice command.

Probably not in the public schools because they lag from 5-10 years behind, but everywhere else - students in schools, universities, corporate training sessions, professional and continuing education development for medicine, law, engineering, technology, and sciences - printed materials are not being used.  People are imparting information through video means, objects from 3D printers, 3D simulations, and holographic presentations.

It's really too late in the game now to stop reading and writing from carrying the load of sharing information any longer.  The two are being relegated more and more to minor chores.  This blog itself will change when 2017 changes to 2018 into a video blog.  It's hypocritical at the very least to continue in written form.  But what better way to illustrate the change from the written word to the visual world than to celebrate the end of the ten-year war that has outlined and tracked the demise of reading and writing by dropping the written version of this blog in favor of a video version.

To the dinosaurs among us, the meteorite has hit the Earth, exploded, and created the catastrophic forces of water deluge, mach 1 sound waves, and burning rain of rock and Earth from the force of the strike that will completely eliminate the species.  Death is imminent.  There will not be a funeral.  People will move on, not using print, but the devices they carry (for now), to present, transmit, receive, and enjoy the world around them and preserve any knowledge they want to perpetuate.