I agree in part, that the digital revolution is accelerating...

however...

We have seen Hollywood turn out record breaking box office receipts in the last few years.. People will still want to go out, face it the Theatre experience kinda blows away what we can do in our homes. Besides most of us aren't hermits lol.

Rental business??? Well that's another story, Our major video / game rental companies in Canada (block buster / rogers) have already stepped up to the plate (as it were) and now offer online rental services. I've heard rumours that will be morphing into actually renting streaming vids online (which of course we'll all soon be able to watch via our computer on our big screen plasmas and lcd tv's.

I know very very few people that actually visit a bank branch anymore. They are still there but by far they are in the minority. There will always be small bank locations to go and talk, and of course as it is now the majority of their in house business is not daily banking but loans, mortgages and investments. Canada has had nation wide banking and ATMs since I was a kid, I can remember even as recently as the 80's going to the USA and having a bi*ch of a time trying to find a bank machine to withdraw funds...

Anyway... I don't feel the digital revolution will change what we do.. but it will change how we do it, in the long run, to the benefit of the masses.

We can all hope for free highspeed wireless blanketing the planet though! =o)

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