I once got a job because I could demonstrate my proficiency in TeX by pointing to the C.V. I'd just handed them - although that was a job as a book designer.

I have a new job. It's rearranging the alphabet, so U and I can be together forever.

They already did that in the qwerty keyboard layout.

Historically: scrolls existed before pages, though pages were clearly the superior technology.

Pages were superior because:

1. Scrolls were more difficult to handle as you read.

2. You could jump around to various places in a long book document, but with a scroll you had to manually unravel it to the point you were looking for, a time consuming process.

3. Books were not without their difficulties, however: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ

But in all seriousness, the scroll concept works perfectly well, in fact better than the book concept, provided you have the right technology to drive it. And modern computers have that technology. I can use a search box to jump to wherever I want. I can quickly scroll up and down in the document using a scroll bar rather than paging through a book.

That news story is from 2007; living in Queens, I just got junkmail from them about how much good Walmart is doing for hunger, suggesting that they're not done with NYC yet.