Internet News

This clip has been circulated on quite a few blogs since TechCrunch commented on it a few days ago. It is indeed pretty interesting. The prescient quote below characterizes the video.

"Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer, but that’s a few years off.”

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Anonymous said…
I agree with the sediment that news will eventually be online. I know personally i am subscribed to the wall street journal online and it is more convenient to access the information online as oppose to going and picking up a newspaper. I think that with the trends and everything moving towards what is more convenient its not hard to imagine a date in the near future that physical newspapers become obsolete
February 13, 2009 at 12:37 PM
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