Journal 7

Print and digital media, although having the same purpose, convey this purpose in completely different ways. Gladwell talks a lot about these differences in "The Social Life of Paper". He states that paper is tangible which basically means that it is physical so we can do whatever we want with it. Paper is spatially flexible meaning we can put it wherever we want in any layout we want to. Paper is tailorable. We can draw whatever we want on it without disturbing the original text on the paper. He talks about how an accumulation of paper, which may be too cluttered for some people, represents active thinking. With all the papers spread out everywhere, it's kinda like our thoughts are spread out everywhere. He talks about this in the example of the air traffic controllers. How even though the air traffic controllers use technology for monitoring where airplanes are, how fast they're going, where they're going, and at what altitude they're at, they use paper to print all that stuff out. This proves that digital and print texts can work together towards the same goal.
One medium will definitely not replace the other medium completely. I agree that digital media is definitely taking over this world however we will always need paper to do things. For example, in math I use paper to write out all my problems and work through them. It would be very difficult to do calculus completely on a computer. Everyday writing can still exist on digital media, so everyday writing shouldn't change all that much.