Commentary: Web can't stop the presses

DÜSSELDORF, Germany -- Drupa 2000, the mammoth print and media exhibition that convenes here every five years, is a humbling experience -- especially when you approach it from the all-digital realm of Internet publishing. Sure, computers are now an integral part of this industry, but print isn't exactly on the verge of extinction. This is one big industry, and it has a refreshing sense of reality to it: Here are companies actually producing objects, objects that have a value and a market to support them. Full story. -- Andreas Pfeiffer, the Pfeiffer Report on Emerging Trends and Technologies, special to ZDNet