Printed maps are disappearing

Printed maps are disappearing

About six months ago, I realised I had no idea what the printed map of my local neighbourhood actually looked like. We had always travelled using apps and screens but never with a printed map. And it struck me that we are at a moment (9) ________ paper maps seem likely to vanish soon from our lives altogether. (10) ________ some point in recent years, it stopped (11) ________ a useful and familiar guide between places — a means by (12) ________ travellers share routes with others, putting a little bit of local history (13) ________ the shape of the streets as they trace the narrow routes across the page. It has started to become just (14) ________ among many options, often considered unattractive and elaborate. For each of us, the act of finding roads on paper by eye goes back as (15) ________ as we can remember. Printed maps, like us, seem always to have been there. But now, given that most of us navigate through apps and screens, have we lost (16) ________ valuable to our shared experience?