What are your thoughts about books being replaced? Anything else?

Hi, was going about a normal day here, reading online news stories, until started to read one about 36 things that would be obsolete in the coming years. Most of what was on the list was being replaced with smartphone use, from a calculator, to a map, to cash and more. Anyhow, 2 things came up as a concern, one was that as much as was being handled with a smartphone, it makes it seem in a few years everyone would have to have a smartphone, even to have airline tickets. Now another is on the information. Many say that having a smart phone opens the world up to knowledge, which is not wrong, but how many are going to know how to search up that knowledge. Where as you take a book shelf, and scan to titles of the books, the person could read titles to subjects that they never heard before, and then go on to read about it. What is a person going to get out of looking at a search bar? Even then it brings up the most popular results. Say if the book the person pulled out was that book's first time in years?

I like trees more than books. 😛

Needless to say, I'm very much in favor of a paper-less society.