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And they predicted the demise of the motion picture... And they predicted the demise of radio...

• hugh 18y ago
  "They" also predicted the demise of the steam locomotive, the horse and cart, the vacuum tube, the oil lantern and the whaling industry. Predictions are sometimes right and sometimes wrong, we all know this. Do you have anything to suggest that the newspaper is more analogous to the motion picture than to the telegraph?
  • vizard 18y ago
    The examples you quote are all technologies. What Marc is also predicting is a change in the technology of content distribution. But what is not gonna go away are content producers. I still prefer watching movies made by Hollywood than home-made videos of cats. Where and how I watch movies may change but the fact that I will still watch professional made movies is not very likely to change. Similarly newspapers may go away as a content distribution mechanism. But professional reporters and news agencies may not necessarily go away even with bloggers and social news sites and so on.