It's always interesting to look at things from a different perspective, and one of the most delightful examples I've encountered recently is a letter in the Jan/Feb 2007 issue of Technology Review, written by a subscriber named Jonathan R. Birge, of Cambridge, MA. Here's part of it:
"I'm convinced that if the technology of written media had somehow developed in reverse, after centuries of reading articles on the Web, we would have heralded the invention of the printed magazine as a revolutionary breakthrough. Portable, high contrast ratio, resolution beyond the limits of human vision, and the ultimate in a tactile, flexible interface. Technology Review would be filled with articles trumpeting the end of the drudgery of scrolling through pixelated articles shackled to heavy devices, and humanity's liberation by the invention of 'multi-layer nano-imprinted organic media.' It would spawn a print bubble in the stock market. Too bad such a good thing suffers from being invented too long ago to be sufficiently appreciated."