Books themselves could, eventually, be a thing of the past, he says. I think that's possible in the very long term. As the people who are growing up with these technologies take them for granted, I think yes, they will supplant books. But that's 25 years hence. All very well This is all very well, book lovers will say.
Books are nice to look at, nice to handle, nice to put on the shelf.
Bookshops are wonderful places where you discover all sorts of things you never knew existed. And Forsyth himself has sympathy with this view. Well frankly I don't. No I don't. I don't know how to operate one.