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by voltagex_ 4675 days ago
Zinio and other magazine apps already do this. They're either encrypted SWFs or PDFs on the backend.
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Yeah, but scientific papers? Isn't that just taking the human race a giant step backwards?
So paper is the final frontier?

Hundreds of years old tech is the optimum and 21st century tech like tablet computers is a step backwards for humanity?

Are you intentionally missing the point? The objection was with apps and encrypted SWFs/PDFs, not all "21st century tech".
OK .... looks like someone's in a bad mood
Well no other tech has been demonstrated to last for literally centuries, other than paper.