In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts
Briefly

"I do not believe (and the progress of electricity and modern mechanism forbids me to believe) that Gutenberg's invention can do otherwise than sooner or later fall into desuetude..."
"Printing, which since 1436 has reigned despotically over the mind of man, is, in my opinion, threatened with death by the various devices for registering sound which have lately been invented..."
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