Digital media vs. Print

Digital media and print go hand in hand with each other. Print is the start of the evolution of digital media. Over the years we have used print for pretty much everything we could think of. It has helped us in so many ways. Recently it has changed to everything being on the computer. With this I don’t think that digital media will completely replace print, I still think we need some forms of print. Every once in a while it is nice to get a letter over an email. Or it is nice to read a newspaper over seeing CNN online. In an article written by Malcolm Gladwell he says, “If its usefulness lies in the promotion of ongoing creative thinking, then, once that thinking is finished, the paper becomes superfluous. The solution to our paper problem, they write, is not to use less paper but to keepless paper” (Gladwell 96). This quote by Gladwell sums up why I think the use of the digital age is better in certain situations. Saying this they go hand in hand with each other. Gladwell does a good job explaining the pros and cons of paper and digital media. He talks about how paper is good and it is the basis of everything we write. Yet the digital age is for forever, and it is permanent. Paper makes you think differently then digital media. It invokes different thoughts and feelings; It holds different ideas.