Quoted
<“Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”
Economist Noah Smith
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That was always on the cards.
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but which do you prefer
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That is what is called “Hobson’s Choice”!
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so what did Hobson choose
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Deferral
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Very true quote. I prefer the real world…purely because I have experienced it before the internet came along. I doubt if anyone younger than us knows what a Screen Free world feels like. I saw a video recently in which a young lad discovered paper notebooks were better than his phone for keeping track of things. You’d think he’d found the answer to world peace, such was his delight! 
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Suppose it’s just down to me age, but I really only dabble around the Internet. It is not the be & end all it appears to be for some.
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Hobsens choice is no choice at all .
In many ways we have choice as so much is now done online
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That is correct, even the techno detractors lives are partially processed “Online”
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and you can email the answer
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Just keep two empty Baked Bean tins and a length of string in, just incase!
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At least he must still be able to print his records with a pen. Time will come when pen and paper really are a thing of the past. Brave new world.
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Haha, very true. Although I seem to spend half my life on it!!
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I think much/most of my business has been in line for around 30 years. For sure we conversation with other customers but text followed on line. However the final documents were in writing.
I’m old now but recently we had some documents needed to be signed in writing. So we still use pen and paper.
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In my opinion the internet will not be around forever.
There is nothing that we have invented or built that hasn’t suffered failure and the internet is a precarious balance of technology.
Then you have limitations, and restrictions that will eventually be placed on it…
The establishment don’t want people becoming too powerful by having mass communication with the rest of the world.
And finally…A country could be disabled by being taken offline by an enemy…
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I totally agree. We certainly won’t have internet freedom or the access to information that we do now. It’s already being restricted by stealth. The whole system is fragile and they were discussing “star wars” and how satellites could be destroyed in future warfare in order to bring down a whole country’s infrastructure. Our total reliance on this system is bizarre.
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It worries me now.
From banking to heating ( which I still don’t understand ) and tV it’s all on the internet.
My husband deals with most of this if he dies first I m in trouble .
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There will always be exceptions to a general trend. I should have said “a thing of the past in everyday business”.
That said, aren’t these still two different things? Although it’s always stressed that oral communication be as valid as that in writing, for certain legally binding contracts you’d need a written document with a handwritten signature to be on the safe side. What about those young people who haven’t learnt cursive handwriting any more? How do they actually generate a signature that can’t be forged relatively easily by someone else?
The other point is if such written documents needed for routine business can be produced electronically by everyone including a legally binding electronic signature that would replace a handwritten one? So far, a scanned document with a handwritten signature is accepted for certain business only.
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Bes, were you a professional “Queuer” 