When we hear the door of the very last bookstore slam shut with the same sort of "sickening smack" that announced the chopping of the last Truffula tree, will the Once-lers of the digital world regret their destruction of the old literary habitat?

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In these, as in the forests of the Old World, destruction was perpetually going on.

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This drive to action and the creative destruction that tears down the old walls and ways of communicating is bringing seismic shifts to our world and society.

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While the story of the world's old-growth forests would appear to be one of unremitting destruction, forests lost to logging and agriculture are actually growing back in some areas, such as the northeast region of the United States and parts of Europe.

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