Life & Wisdom Quote by Craig Bruce

“Anything on paper is obsolete!” lands like a thrown stapler: blunt, impatient, and a little performative. Craig Bruce isn’t calmly predicting the future so much as daring you to admit you already live in it. The line is a provocation aimed at our lingering reverence for print as the “serious” medium. By declaring paper dead in absolute terms, he uses exaggeration as a diagnostic tool: if you feel yourself objecting, you’ve revealed your attachment to the old hierarchy where permanence equals authority.

The intent reads less like technophilia and more like a writer’s strategic cynicism about how information actually moves. Paper is slow, fixed, and expensive to revise; the digital world is fast, mutable, and ruthless about updates. Calling paper “obsolete” isn’t only about technology, it’s about power: who gets to correct the record, who controls distribution, who profits from gatekeeping. Online, the gate is always half-broken, which is thrilling and terrifying.

The subtext carries a faint whiff of loss, too. Paper is tactile proof that something existed in a stable form. Digital text can vanish, be edited without trace, or drown in the feed. So the punchline hides a darker admission: our new “archives” are provisional, curated by platforms, and subject to silent erasure.

Context matters: coming from a working writer (not a futurist CEO), the quote reads like industry gallows humor. It’s not a eulogy for books; it’s a warning that cultural legitimacy has already migrated, and nostalgia won’t negotiate your way back.