Print is dead.

>no source, argument, or context

>>24570959 (OP)
Source?

>>24570959 (OP)
Billions sold every year in printed books.

>>24570959 (OP)
K

>>24571970
Ghostbusters (1984)

>>24570959 (OP)
this changes everything

>>24572415
broke down in tears at this

>>24570959 (OP)
fuuuck me

Mandela effect; "Print is dead" or "Printers dead"

>>24573621
It's obvious he says "print is dead" if you're not a retard. First of all it's a response to Janine asking Egon, "Do you like to read?" And he prounces it very clearly. "PrinT IS dead."

Go back and watch the scene moron

>>24575108
Gosh. Much anger. Very trigger.

>>24575245
Sorry, Ghostbusters is my favorite movie. I've watched it so many times I have the entire script seared into my mind. I won't have anons spreading misinformation about it!

>>24575272
Understandable anon. My apologies.

>>24575272
genius movie, too bad so few understands it

>>24575946
Explain it

>>24575952
Bustin' makes one feel good.

>>24575952
I don't know what other anon is talking about, it's not some deep intellectual movie or anything. RLM did a video about it and they said Ghostbusters was about the American dream (starting your own business, becoming successful, before getting fucked over by feds). It fits I suppose.

Since we're on /lit/ though I'd recommend reading the novelization, it's slop but expands the story and characters and even includes things removed from the original screenplay. (Not the ORIGINAL original screenplay written by Dan Akyroid and Harold Ramis, which was like futuristic sci-fi shit)

Also Ghostbusters 2 is a great movie, I've heard a lot of bad shit about it but if you're not a douchebag and can just enjoy a funny feel-good movie it's awesome. Always watch 1 and 2 back to back.

I'm not sure what Egon meant by this.
Likely it was just reference to how the world was going digital, and print was no longer necessary for the spread of ideas or information.
But I've always had a slightly different interpretation, that print is "dead" as in Egon sees written words as lifeless. He uses them as a tool only, because he's a man of science. His very next line is the infamous "I collect spores, molds, and fungus." Meaning he's more interested in directly interacting with life rather than middling with empty words.

>>24570959 (OP)
The line comes during Egon Spengler’s first conversation with Janine Melnitz in the fire-house office. She is trying to flirt, begins chatting about books and magazines, and he cuts her off with a flat, “Print is dead.” Within the scene it serves two purposes at once. Dramatically it establishes Egon’s personality: hyper-rational, terse, and uninterested in ordinary small-talk. Conceptually it signals his commitment to data that can be stored, processed, or measured electronically; paper, with its fixed words and slow distribution, has no appeal for a man who spends his days calibrating unlicensed nuclear accelerators and building PKE meters. The joke also echoed a real cultural conversation of the early 1980s, when personal computers and videotex systems were first being touted as the future of information and magazines such as Time were running pieces on the “paperless office.” So the line simultaneously characterizes Egon, pokes fun at his technophilia, and winks at a contemporary audience primed to hear predictions that ink on paper would soon be obsolete. In contrast, the ghost storage facility functions as a metaphor for digital storage, and more specifically for compression. Each ghost is introduced as an immense, free-floating bundle of psychokinetic energy that would, if left unconfined, fill whole buildings or city blocks. High-entropy content is algorithmically recoded so that it occupies only a fraction of its original space. Egon’s remark that the grid is “getting crowded” and will have to be “tethered to the main grid” parallels the early-eighties fear that computer disks, once hailed as limitless, would quickly saturate unless data were compressed or migrated to ever larger drives. His curt dismissal of print as “dead” therefore foreshadows his preference for a medium in which the volumetric scale of a thing, whether a stack of journals or a ravenous Class-Five apparition, no longer dictates how much room it must occupy. The catastrophic chain reaction that follows Peck’s shutdown also riffs on digital anxiety: if the compression container loses power or indexing, the previously compacted data explode back into unmanageable form, corrupting the environment like a surged hard drive disgorging gibberish. So the ghost storage facility is more than a supernatural jail; it is an allegory of information science circa 1984, dramatizing the promise of infinite compression and the peril of data overflow in a world that has begun to trade mass and matter for code and energy.

>>24576838
This has to be AI. I think a human would get to the fucking point a little faster.

>>24576956
AI will include every blog post, book and magazine articles thoughts in its analysis, which results in it confidently telling you things that the authors never dreamed of.

It's like a David Lynch fan telling you what Eraserhead is about instead of David himself.