Are Phone Books, Newspapers, Landlines Dead?

Do you still use a Sioux Falls phone book or do you just Google it? With the invention of the internet and smart phones everyone thought things like the phone books and CD's were doomed.

It seems like the old tech and reference sources that we once depended on but were predicted to kick off just won't die.

For example in 2014:

• 571 million print books were sold in the United States. Thought Kindles would have killed them.
• About 55 million newspapers were printed every morning. Doesn't everyone get there news from the internet?
• Around 13 million vinyl records were sold. That's the highest count in 25 years. Itunes was supposed to put the nail in the album's coffin.
• Tens of millions of Americans still own a landline. I have no idea why?

Here is a list of old tech that was supposed to have been replaced by now but yet hangs on:

1. Cable TV
2. Travel Agents
3. Encyclopedias
4. Telephone Landlines
5. Newspapers
6. Paper Maps
7. Paper Books
8. Walkie-Talkies
9. Telephone Books
10. CD's

So why would anyone with a laptop or smart phone still use any of these? Perhaps because there is some comfort in using what you know.

If there are enough people that find it more preferable to use a folding paper map rather than typing a destination into MapQuest I'm guessing they'll keep printing road maps. But honestly, is there anyone that can refold one?

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