The last 10 years have brought a sweeping switch from tape and paper storage to digital downloads. Music, TV shows, movies, photos and now books and newspapers.
When he flicks the switch and turns on his lamp, a sensor on his desk downloads music tracks digitally encoded within tiny flickers in the lamp's light.
The most controversial change, other the switch to Unity for the main interface, is that Ubuntu is changing its default music player from Rhythmboxto Banshee.