There is a larger pattern here worth noting: old tech atrophies in the presence of new tech. For example, stores that stop taking cash. Books that stop publishing on paper. Music that has no physical media distribution. The problem is that the conditions of the new tech are almost always far more fragile and centralized (!) than the old tech.

Broadcast radio and TV is (and newspaper, and telephone lines) are, ironically, a more resilient and distributed form of information distribution than the internet in many ways. The internet itself becomes the bottleneck; the power-law distributed control becomes the bottleneck; the devices (and all their security and psychological downsides) become terrible yet indispensable.

For every middle manager gung ho to replace paper with an iPad and an app, I say: find something else to do with your time. You're making the world actively worse.