Wake up and smell the snailpapers

The likelihood is that if you are reading this column you are online. Though China has to some extent bucked the trend of declining newspaper circulation the bet is 20 years from now it will be the same story here as everywhere else. The daily snailpaper is on its way out.

"Snailpaper," you say. "What's that?"

Well, following on from the idea of calling post that is written on a piece of paper and physically carried from one destination to another, snail mail (or smail, as opposed to e-mail), we have arrived at a point in history where we must start talking about the newspaper in the past tense by giving it a new name snailpaper.