The shifting distributionpatterns for books mean publishers now need strategies to make local independent bookstores sustainable and to help restore local booksellers where they no longer exist.
As the changing economic patterns translate into changing population patterns, the distribution of political power among the states will be transformed as well.
The European mission will instead study the influence of dark energy by looking for subtle distortions in the way galaxies appear as they line up on the sky, and by measuring the patterns in the three dimensional distribution of galaxies through time.