No.  Why do we insist on putting analogue data in digital form?  If there is digital technology, then we should use it to its potential in whatever way that may be.  Currently, the internet is another medium used to communicate the same information that can be found in other media.  The difference is that a computer is a “uni-media” tool taking the place of multi-media” (Weibe and Dornsife 135).  They suggest in “The Metaphor of Collage: Beyond Computer Composition” that instead of the analogue medium such as a VCR, tape recorder, photograph, radio, cassette player, and printed text, the computer in a sense, is a “collage” that brings the function of the mediums together and can utilize all of them using one source.

            Paul Taylor, author of “Social Epistemic Rhetoric and Chaotic Discourse” discusses the “computer as transformative” and that “Computers are transforming the nature of texts, and some forms (such as the expository essay) may not figure prominently in computer-based discourse of the (near) future” (146).  We are not to that point yet, though.  There are presently generations of people acting as archives of the analogue age.  We still think, move, read, and comprehend linearly.  Children born in the 2000’s will not understand the significant changes digital technology has created.  With every generation there is and always has been an inherent degree of ignorance of “how it used to be,” but this is first generation of children born into a digital world. Their understanding of analogue will barely reach beyond terminology kept merely for nostalgia.