Sometimes, you have to look at what something does, not how it does it. Newspaper replaced by Sympaitico's web page??? So what!! It still distills information and distributes it. The internet? One giant step towards a truly global community. The loss of carberators merely means less pollution to breath and a smaller carbon footprint to travel a kilometer. Payphones gone? It's because you can reach your children for thirty bucks a month, anytime, anywhere.
Truth, beauty, spin and charm.. are they personality traits, or are they charactreristics of a quark? The hallmarks of civility, inherantly, become more valiable in their scarcity.
Has the nature of the world moved on, or only the mechanics of it's reality?