I despise the company or person who thinks I appreciate it when I come home from work to find a brand new phone book sitting in my driveway.  I haven't used a phone book since I discovered the internet over a decade ago.  Unlike a catalog, which one might use to peruse objects sold by a company, a phone book (and any other listing of information, e.g. that huge, stupid catalog of physicians sent to me by my former health insurance provider) is meant to be searched, which is exactly why the internet was invented in the first place.  Catalogs are meant for browsing, and even in a wired society, they can still serve a purpose (i.e. if the company doesn't have any stores in your area and their website is stupid or ugly).  But for the act of searching for information, the internet is the answer, not some frequently-outdated, impossible-to-opt-out-of, archaic book of papers. #technology