I know, you are right. We have two divergent worlds going on now, the screen and the print.
In society at large, the screen has almost completely taken over the print as the forum for how photographs are consumed.
Here in Atlanta we recently had a great photo books conference as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Photo book publishers from all over the country came here with their samples. I loved it. I suggested a former student of mine meet me over there and look at the publications. This guy is 30 now and is a really excellent ad and editorial photographer who works in many countries. I asked him what he though of all the great tri tone and high-end color books, and he said, wow that's cool but what do these publishers do with the books? Do people still buy books? His world is online. 15 years ago his work would be in print form, now it is consumed screens of one form or another. Of course this is inevitable, and certainly saves trees. Prints are going to be used as an art form only in my experience. Even in shopping malls and stuff, we are going to see all the displays go to super high-res video, and maybe 3d vr kinds of things. These images are going to be sharper than reality and produce a kind of "special effect" presence. Either that or you will consume it on your phone. We used to have specialized software developed for sharpening pictures, now the trend is to produce software to soften them.
I"m so sorry I'm way OT.
john
Interesting observation John, and brings to mind a little "hobby" of mine - periodically looking at some of my prints and asking whether what I am seeing on paper is more or less sharp than how I would perceive that scene in reality, taking into account of course that I am examining an image at the end of my nose that I would view at some distance as an original scene. Often I think we're at or near the practical threshold of when "sharp" is sharp enough for non-specialized purposes.