The wire telegraph and the rotary printing press killed storytelling some time in the 19th century with these newfangled "papers" that everybody is still moanin

The wire telegraph and the rotary printing press killed storytelling some time in the 19th century with these newfangled "papers" that everybody is still moaning about. No, wait, that moaning now is about these papers disappearing again because a new, stronger narrative medium has come along. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=572887 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=572887 In other news, culture is in a process of steady decline at least since the invention of the written word.