Phone books are so last century

I just looked something up in mine and realized that the reason there was dust on it was because I hadn't used it in a couple months.

Huh.

I used to wear out my phone book before the internet happened, so much so that for the latter part of every year it required emergency binding with Scotch tape out back in my skunk works to make it last until the next edition arrived in early December.

Who needs a phone book any more?

Prediction: within a few years you will not automatically receive a phone book if you have a wired phone but will have to pay extra for it, just like a prospective passenger on Northwest Airlines who wants an aisle seat.

Hey, it could — and will be — a lot worse.

Watch the video here and see what it might be like to stand instead of sit for your entire flight.

I mean, who would've thought ten years ago that the New York Times (paper version) would stop — as it did earlier this month — carrying the stock market tables most days?

Why bother when it's all online and far more timely?

Same with phone listings.