The history of media technologies suggests that it is rare for any of them to be entirely superseded by others. Long-playing records did not make live concerts obsolete. Television did not kill radio. Books still sell in the age of the internet. This is known as “Riepl's law”, after a German newspaper editor who first noticed the effect in 1913. The chances are that, even if video games overtake books and television (and they are still a long way from doing so), the earlier forms will survive alongside them.
