With seemingly endless forms of digital media, from Smartphones to Kindles, is printed media slowly becoming redundant? As a generation that relies heavily on technology and the internet, some may say yes. On my daily commute, I can confidently say that the ratio of people that use technology to read is much greater than those with actual books or newspapers in their hands. It’s a sad fact that you’re more likely to catch someone pressing a button to access the next page of something rather than licking their thumb and turning the page. However despite great revolutionary advances within the media (and no one can deny how incredible they are), I don’t think that this is to say that print is dead.

There’s something about having words and print on paper that can’t ever be replaced. It’s traditional- cultural, even. Books and Newspapers are part of our history and a lot of people want to keep that alive- for the time being, anyway.

Perhaps in the next hundred years or so, people will be saying the same about iPhones and the internet; perhaps they’ll be the ones getting lost in the great technological past. Technology has been outdoing itself for decades now; there’s always something new and exciting on the scene and the original product ultimately decreases in price and popularity until it completely dies out.

Printed media has sustained throughout all of this, and I am certain that it will continue to hold and reign through the world of media for many generations to come.