Heather your question is valid and his been raised and debated in many places.
But change does happen, albeit indeed at a very slow pace. Scholars are indeed
conservative in their work habit,s and maybe there's even a good side to that.
Without elaborating too much I think we may expect to see:
Thanx very much to Heather for drawing attention to Odlyzko's (1995) paper,
which I hadn't seen before. It was most interesting to be returned to the
days when all those without access to Mosaic had to do was to write a few
commands to get an ftp file sent to them!
It was also interesting to