Quitters! The Encyclopedia Britannica announced it will stop printing book versions of their encyclopedia, preferring instead to shift to an Internet-only version. But is this really fair? How will little kids reach the table without an Encyclopedia Britannica to sit on, now that there are no more phone books? Plus, doesn’t everyone use Wikipedia online instead anyway? And what will we do when some sawfish accidentally cuts through a main Internet cable, or some piece of space junk smashes out our satellite network? Will we have to read old versions and research newspapers manually at the library like they used to do in the Paleolithic era? Will we even remember how to do it anymore? Plus, won’t this mean that no more annoying door-to-door salesmen will bother us during dinner anymore to buy the encyclopedia sets? Why, we’ll have to talk to our families again! (Oh, the humanity!) Or I guess we could just play Angry Birds or something on our otherwise-useless smartphones, even if we lost our Internet connections.
Here’s the story from the Huff & Puff Post:
