[rkagerer]

<sigh> I guess I'm old fashioned but I really like being able to print things (even if sometimes not to real paper).

eg. I print / save websites' ToS to PDF all the time. Over the last few years (especially from Chrome) the result looks increasingly garbled, nothing like what's on my screen. God forbid figuring out how to produce them as exhibits for litigation.

Paper-sized, static content also tends to be a convient dimension for reviewing material of substance (eg. think academic papers).

Often during tax season, or when reviewing database models or complex business logic workflows I'll print the spreadsheets / ERM / flowcharts across large 11x17 sheets that get tiled up on the walls or littered across the floor effectively giving me infinite screen space. Humans are built for working spatially like this rather than clicking back and forth endlessly between tabs. (And incidentally, coworkers have been amazed how much more efficient we become being able to crowd around such an exposition together). I'll keep doing that until wall-sized, surround-you-on-four-sides touchscreens become commonplace (or VR ergonomic enough you can't tell you're in it) along with annotation tools that match the intuitiveness of cutouts and sticky tape.

And if I have to read hundreds of pages worth of literature I still prefer to do it on paper and save myself the eyestrain.

Not bashing the new tech, it sounds cool, I just fear it will make rendering to more traditional layouts more difficult.