Letter: Technology can't replace magazines
A friend who can afford to buy magazines and then kindly passes them on to me arrived today with some more and some bad news – they will be the last.
Now both these magazines, and many more, will only be available to be downloaded to your iPad, Kindle or mobile phone.
This will save paper, provide subscribers with bigger and better pictures, more in-depth features and articles and the knowledge that it will not be wet and shredded in your letterbox.
The magazines, like governments and society in general, assume that we all have these devices, like they assume that we all have access to a motorcar. Hospitals around the country have been regionalised, never mind the patients, visitors and nurses. They all have cars don't they?
They cannot visualise an all-day journey to hospital on three buses.
It is true that we cannot stop progress, cannot ignore new technology but affording it is a different matter. I have a computer full stop, no mobile phone or any other needless pocket device simply because of the cost and none register with me as so important that I must get into debt to own one.
Bob Wydell
Oswestry
