Agree with this... Netflix, streaming video and VOD killed the video store. Music downloads killed the record store. Online booksellers and possibly ebook readers will soon kill the brick and mortar bookstore.trailerkid wrote: and the book industry may go the way of the music industry within the next few years.
Will future 'progress' in internet social networking eventually kill entertainment districts?
I remember the cyberpunk movement in the 80s (I was kinda into it), which were geeks prematurely trying to live in a digital only world. Physical contact with the outside carbon-based world was ideally by choice, not necessity. That is not only becoming more of an attainable reality, the masses are slowly adopting to it. Digital living will eventually become more practical and possibly more satisfying to future generations than going out to do things... sad but true. Especially when we eventually (and we will) connect computers directly to our brains.