In my own opinions, I think that in the coming future, print media will still be present as people are now still picking up newspapers and reading magazines. It has been a part of our lives for a long time and will not be disregarded easily. However, I still think that in the far future, print media will be less and less of a factor, and will eventually be pushed out of the market. The technological advances are at its peak development, and people are looking to do things more efficiently and effectively. People are constantly on the move and are looking towards their portable devices as their source for media. As the devices get smaller and more efficient, I think that eventually, printed media will be insignificant and will eventually be excluded from the market.

I think there will be a future for print media, though the role print media will play will become smaller I feel. While digital is very useful, can be cheap and sustainable, something tangible will remain popular to people. Just as movies have to totally replaced theatre, digital media will not totally replace print media.

I think there is a future for print media, just not as print media. All of these microblogs and other user-generated media channels are mostly created by people who like to write about something and who voice their opinion. They are not backed up with the resources that traditional print media currently has at its disposal. Print media is also an institution (at least in some countries) of credibility and trustworthiness that microblogs just cannot gain quickly enough compete.

I really would like to see a successful change of traditional print media towards digital media (such as the NYT manages, or Huffington).

I do think there is a future left for print-media. Of course everything will be digitalised and is more affordable online. Though having something tangible will in my opinion be of great importance even for younger generations. It will be less common though to have this many print media available as nowadays then it will be in the future, but in my opinion it will always be present and might even make a come-back or become something exclusive since it will be a sort of 'rare' in the future.

I do, I think that something tangible is very important now but also in the future to communicate, create awareness for a specific product, event or something else. I think it always works out.

I believe eventually print media will not exist anymore. This process will take a long time however. What can be seen in the past years is that many print media companies digitized or filed for bankruptcy. Even Sanoma (a leading company in print media) was forced to stop with 50% of the magazines they were selling. The production costs of print media is just too high and more people are finding their information online anyway.

At this moment we find ourselves at a pivotal point in time in which our world is changing to a complete digital environment. With Facebook buying companies like Oculus a virtual reality will not be that far ahead. The people nowadays who are retro oriented and buy LP's and who in 50 years will buy books to look cool, will also eventually vanish. Do you see hipsters writing letters to eachother in stone? No, because that is an activity related to an era too long ago. The same will happen to CD's, LP's and anything written on paper.