We will still need story tellers, journalists, sources of news collection. I wonder about the world after the Gutenberg press, or the Heidelberg Press for that matter.

Have you noticed that some large billboards are not being produced in digital form? That some signage, as well as advertisements, downtown or at the airport, are being shown on large flat panel digital displays? The Silk Screen presses will also be disappearing. Along side it will be the methods of distribution all the way down to the bookstore and the paper boy/girl. Press operators, truckers hauling paper to printing plants, printing plants themselves as well as equipment repair and maintenance. Look at all the jobs beyond lumberjacks that will disappear or (in some cases) become extinct. My wife gets a digital subscription to our Cincinnati Enquirer and I get my news via digital app’s, as well as news web sites. In our Tech world all of our manuals are coming in a digital form. E-books for general reading purposes, learning or entertainment, are outselling the hard cover or paperback products. The printing industry is disappearing.Īs kids going to school begin to get their books on e-readers and as newspapers shrink in distribution and size, (and we get our news on the TV or computer, tablet, phone) fewer and fewer lumberjacks will be needed. I don’t care what you might say about wanting the feel of the morning newspaper with your coffee, or the tactile stimulation of holding a book while reading, paper is disappearing. We will need them for maintaining our forests however with building’s being made of composite materials, steel, glass, plastic, we do not need lumber for building. As I read my top 3 subscriptions to magazines, Wired, Inc., Fortune, I suddenly realize the number of jobs that could become extinct in the future, Lumber Jacks will be one of them.

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