We need to keep up with changing world

I have seen many new technologies in my short 19 years. If I have learned one thing, it's if you can't keep up with a changing world you'll soon perish. What I will never understand is why people fight so hard to keep the old ways of doing things. Some even want to use our money to do it.

Radio stations are dying, the U.S. mail service is holding on by a thread, print newspapers are losing readers, and some public libraries are practically ghost towns. There is one thing that is beating all of these industries and I just used it to check my spelling of ‘industries': the Internet. It is really simple economics. When something faster and better comes along, it replaces the older and slower. It's why we listen to iPods or watch movies with color or flip a switch instead of lighting a match; it's just better.

I say we let the old die peacefully; putting them on life support is just going to drag out what we all know is going to happen. I know there are those that do still rely on the old way of doing things, but they are all losing money, they simply cannot keep going. We should not use tax money to keep them afloat.

Blaine Gibson

Cedar Rapids