Thursday, 9 June 2011

Autobiography of a paper

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
That was my past. I actually was written upon by Henery D. Theorau!
But now I am over a century old and pieces of me are lost in the sands of this world as my bits kept abandoning me every time I was recycled.I need to write my story before I forget all of it.
Well, I shall concentrate on the part of my life when I was young and had not been recycled even a single time. I was created by a great Nazi scientist in 1942, when Hitler Had declared war on the allies and was looking strong. My ream was created for a reason-We had to be highly thin and durable, for we were needed to be concealed very often as most of us had highly classified orders written on us and were given to spies who risked their lives to present us to commanders waiting for war positions. I was the first paper of my kind to come into this world in my present form, and certainly the most important for a long time. My first writer was the 'Desert fox' himself, Feild Marshall Erwin Rommel! He was writing to a colonel on the French coast of Normandy, asking him to build forts, preparing for the allied invasion of June 6 1945, also known as D-day. All I say is that my life was highly eventful due to an excess of spies, guns, poets and highly ridiculed physicists. I cannot summarise all my life in a short piece but I can certainly inspire, which I just did!

With the advent of Kindle, books are passe


Today is a world of computers, smartphaones, tablets and most importantly, the Kindle. The ways in which these gadgets affect us are innumerable and certainly positive. The Kindle is the most influential of reading gadgets developed in the near past and will hopefully change the way we look at books. After all, how many people would prefer carrying the encliopedia Brittanica in print form rather that carry in in a single microchip? Books were invented due to their easy portability over cave drawings and so it would be absolutely normal for it to be made redundant by digital readers like the kindle. We find the need to advance highly important for human development but some of us still clutch books reverentcially. How are we ever supposed to make progress in this way? So, we need to sacrifice books for the greater good for mankind.

Debate

paper has been a useful thing in the past and continue to be so 
Today we stand divided! Why? On an issue of such grave importance that it may affect the human race in such a way that we may never advance foward and be stuck in a world which will give shudders to every radical and progressionist!
Greetings to all my friends of all ages and all the readers of this debate! I, Aaryaman, stand firmly againt the motion which is sweeping the nation and globe alike!
Let's start with the facts- Computers can eliminate the disasterous spelling errors,
allow easy access to the internet, helping publishers and bloggers among many other things.
Written word didn't exist  since the beginning of time, did it? But we still survived, courtesy oral recetations of age old philosophies. This didn't mean we abandoned oral recetation of ridiculously long sagas, but they steadily decreased until nothing more than a rarity. Soon, hopefully we shall be able to say the same about the written word, which is being steadily defeated in the popularity chart by digital typing. The written word was merely an era defining invention which lasted for much longer than expected. Now, with it's popularity fading, it is the perfect time for it to retire and mingle in the mist of redundant inventions which were ground breaking at their times. My worthy opponents may state that old is gold, but a merely chuckle at the prospect of living in caves and eating raw meat.270. So, I can safely say without fear of being proved wrong that paper's future anything but bright.

Newspapers will become obsolete

Today, it has been brought to most peoples notice that a newspaper's popularity has taken a nose-dive.
I say that this points to only one thing- A bleak future for most, if not all gazettes that are in paper and ink.
Newspapers cannot match the jauggernaut onslaught presented by E-papers, which are more economical, more accessible and much much better for the environment. Thus, the visible advantages of an E-paper show that the future for normal papers is highly bleak and they will soon be replaced by other novel ways of getting news, most visible of which are E-papers, internet and ubiquitous T.V in general.
The number of papers shutting down since 2008 drive the point across candidly- 9078 tabloids, 668 major ones and approximately 899 respectable magazines, out of which 29 were in the top 500 stable magizines in 2001.
Thus, we can safely say that NEWSPAPERS WILL BECOME OBSOLETE.