This was discussed on this week’s episode of TWiT and I was a little bit distressed listening to it; the panel decided that the magazine is dead.  Now I realise Leo Laporte isn’t personally going to destroy all print media, but the TWiTs are smart guys-and-gals, and the idea of no more (computer) magazines bothers me.

You know, maybe it’s just that I live in a completely un-wired society (sorry Australia, but you’re stuck in 1986 compared to North America), but I do not want to read my magazines off a computer screen.  Sure, I get most of my news this way (and post links to a lot of the articles here!) but there’s something to be said about reading a paper copy.

I just can’t read from a computer screen for long periods of a time.  Raise your hand if you find anything you read on the computer is just skimmed.

It’ll be a sad day when all I can buy at the magazine rack is Archie comics and Who Weekly.  But I suppose I’m on the wrong side of this debate.  I’ll tell you the watershed moment – when they stop making print copies of National Geographic.  When you can’t buy a real copy of that magazine is when everything will have changed.  Of course, it won’t have changed in that instant; no this revolution comes with a whisper, not a bang.