Newspapers, as they are created and put together on computers … are seen as providers of building blocks – or databases of news and information – that can be turned into many different kinds of constructure.
Predictor: Hunt, Robin
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 London Guardian article about the L.A. Times’ decision to begin to publish an online version of its newspaper, Robin Hunt refers to ideas espoused by Nicholas Negroponte. Hunt writes: ”Nicholas Negroponte, director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes that the newspaper of the 21st century will be a personalized, online database of news and information (know as the ‘Daily Me’), filtered to the desires of the individual reader … Media guru or not, a lot of people don’t believe him … Somewhere in between there is a more commonly held view about the future of the press in the digital era: nobody knows what, but something’s going to happen. That something was at one stage thought to be the end of the newspaper – based on the fear of an MTV, Nintendo culture, falling newspaper circulations around the world, and the seductive science-fiction imagery of the interactive future. Nowadays, this is not the case. The fashionable metaphor is of architecture: newspapers, as they are created and put together on computers … are seen as providers of building blocks – or databases of news and information – that can be turned into many different kinds of constructure.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Newspapers
Name of publication: The Guardian (London)
Title, headline, chapter name: Starting From Database One: The L.A. Times is Going Online
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
T16
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Kohlhagen, Kelly C.