>That said, my favorite technological anachronism in Cyberpunk
>2020 is also in BGC. Both correctly predicted that newspapers
>were a dead technology (although CP2020 thought they would be gone by
>2020, which they are, well, not quite), but in both cases what
>replaced them was... a fax machine. You go to your nearest public
>DataTerm (in CP) or your home computer (in BGC) and... print a
>newspaper. Sorry, screamsheet. :)

This does serve a purpose. You can't use a digital article to line a birdcage, much as some richly deserve it.