One of the silliest things about all the hand-wringing over the death of print is the idea that there's some unbridgeable divide between physical books and digital technology, that the latter exists solely to destroy the former. In reality, they can work beautifully together.

Last year, swimming's world governing body put the kibosh on high-tech suits, claiming they gave swimmers an unfair advantage over competitors. (Evidence? How about Michael Phelps's one, two, three, four... eight billion record-crushing wins in Beijing, where the suits made their Olympic debut?)