The second law of thermodynamics dictates that we're not going back to using tape.
I never stopped. Had two Nagra gigs this week, likely a 1" 8-track gig
next week.
--scott
Sure, and I still use fountain pens.
Some of the proverbial ink molecules can go back into the bottle that got spilled into the pool.
(I really wanted to use unscrambling an omelet as an entropy analogy, but I just couldn't make it work.)