Re: Newspapers are doomed?

From: Alec Ellis <alece_at_glopro.com>
Date: Mon 18 Sep 2000 15:27:56 -0500

MARGARITA <b_o_n_a_at_hotmail.com> WROTE:
> Hi, I've beed doing a research on Internet vs.
> newspaper advertising recently and I got a feeling that
> the world is not big enough for both of them. To quote
> Ted Turner from Time Warner: "I wouldn't want to be in
> the newspaper business. I think the Internet is going
> to eat them first" (Fortune, Jan 10,2000)

With the invention of hand helds, palm tops, laptops
etc... newspapers are now going to have to die out. We
do not have endless resources... but media companies
can invest in discs or the new credit card type of
engineering, etc. Things are getting smaller and more
powerful.

If you could shine your news on a wall and read it
clearly with the new digital presentations (not TV
resolution which has always made reading on TV too
difficult for lengths of time) this would reduce the
need for paper wasted every day by daily's, mags, etc.

If you could go to the park sit in the sun and have
your favorite News channels (Net style) pumped into a
wireless hearing aid, having been programmed from the
TV, Net, etc, and forward them like CD controls.

If you could have "newspapers" that re-build them
selves, i.e. a foldable screen that is updated each
time you open it..... like a newspaper, a thin flat
screen with new "wireless" technology... you could even
take it to the toilet... one only draw back...not
advised to use it if the toilet roll runs out.... BUT
...so there are some drawbacks.

We are only seeing HALF the picture..... people are
saying this will affect the news..... NO... this will
effect TWO things, one the delivery of the news and WHO
dictates it..... and two the receipt of the news.

I believe Newspapers will have to go soon, the news
will always stay of course ...this is human nature.

Sincerely
Alec Ellis
www.glopro.com





Received on Mon Sep 18 2000 - 15:27:56 CDT