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I think we already migrated. Right now, each story is a bundle of facts and statements. A chatbot could disaggregrate those facts, and feed the news consumer an
by vonnik 11y ago
I think we already migrated. Right now, each story is a bundle of facts and statements. A chatbot could disaggregrate those facts, and feed the news consumer answers to questions they have about the subject without imposing such a total order to the presentation of those facts. That would be the give and take, and the conversation could range far beyond a single piece of news. It's all about contextualizing events. Reporters and editors make a lot of decisions about the context they present, but in this new choose-your-own-adventure format, readers could explore context beyond the limits imposed by a small newshole and all the decisions that entails.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI wonder how this will change the way news and society interact. Right now, news serve as a very important social object - recent events and popular articles provide default topics for conversation for people. If we move to "choose-your-own-adventure format", we may lose the ability to discuss it, as everyone will have their own version of "recent events". BTW. the way you described it - choose-your-own-adventure, seamlessly explorable news - sounds really cool. I'd definitely love to try something like this out.