"This is the beginning of the end of the Word."

Well, that title seems dramatic indeed: "For an hour this week, I thought, 'This is the beginning of the end of the Word.'" I ran across this October 2009 quotation from Newsweek's religion editor, Lisa Miller, in another publication. She was commenting on an electronic Bible, and its potential to replace the Scriptures as we generally know it -- a bound Bible book. It is an interesting argument, though I think we are quite a ways from such a day. Technology is attractive, but not all (by a long shot!) have bought in.
Miller's sentiment is an interesting contrast to a recent movie "The Book of Eli" in which Denzel Washington's character protected the last Bible (in an alternative format), so it could be REPRINTED. (Spoiler alert: He dies as the Bible rolls off the press.)
I think the church can handle an all electronic Bible, as the technology people of faith have known has certainly shifted -- oral tradition, papyrus and scrolls, codex, hand-copied book, the printing press, and mass market product. Why not electronic some day?
But hardly, even then, "the beginning of the end of the Word."
How does Isaiah 40:8 say it? "The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever."