Lyle,
 
As some others have pointed out, chemicals and paper for printing the old  
way will survive for artists and professional photographers. As an owner of  
Kodak stock, I know they continue to produce these materials and will do so in  
the future for that narrow clientele. And if not Kodak, there will always be  
someone to fill that hole, as with the case of the carousel projectors (I still 
 have mine from 1976 and still buy parts). But the real problem with digital 
is  that the kinds of memory products will change. As I have been so fond of  
pointing out, the Smithsonian Institution long ago stopped purchasing 
computers  to read all the forms of media that have been produced because there will 
always  be "new" reading devices and obsolete ones. Face it, the only thing 
that will  survive the next century will be paper in HVAC controlled spaces.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.




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