In my last few travel experiences, I've seen a variety of tickets, from the red carbons to the standard computer card tickets, to the printed out e-ticket forms (my form of ticket, I like to have pieces of paper on hand if I have to argue about a reservation)
to the lady in the fur coat who walked up to the counter, put down her credit card and drivers licence and got her ticket (she had an e-ticket)

My friend Holly prefers the old fashioned tickets but I'm trying to get her to get used to e-tix (even if she gets a printed copy of her itinerary.)

Raeban: I think all future travel representatives should learn the red carbon ticket making system if the computers ever crash.

I remember at teh Air France Counter in Berlin two of the agents never hard of red carbon tickets. "We are new and we only know
the tickets you get out of the computer!)

YIKES! CATMAN