Is the Magazine Going Extinct?

A couple of days ago I came across a documentary that was looking into the lives of ‘digital natives’.  Digital natives are kids who are growing up now and who only know an all digital reality.  They’ve never watched a movie on a VCR, listened to music on a cassette tape, or played a video game with a cartridge (remember the ones you had to blow on to make work sometimes?  Ahhh the good ole days).  In some schools they were teaching the students to use the internet as soon as they were taught how to read. This information made me reflect on one of my favorite past-times which I’ve noticed myself doing less and less of as time goes by: reading magazines.

Then I thought… Is it possible that my children could go their whole lives and never read an actual printed version of a magazine?

After pondering that thought I’ve come to the conclusion that it is possible, and in fact it’s quite probable that there will be a day when children of the future learn about the magazine online and view it as a historical relic, ya know kinda like the dead sea scrolls or the tablets that the ten commandments were written on.  Okay well maybe not quite that dramatic but you get the point. I don’t think it’s a matter of if but when.

So… what do you think?  Is the magazine going extinct?