This is true survival of the best news-delivery agent, and it’s about time. Either the people who read us will decide we have something special and buy in but good, or they will do it themselves and our word processors will flash blankly. So be it. These new demands can offer information delivery a bracing restorative.
Predictor: Bilodeau, Anne
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Computer-Mediated Communication, Anne Bilodeau, a founder of the Society of Electronic News Delivery, writes:”What the intrepid Internet-based reporter will need to know, I can hardly imagine. My strolls along Internet’s byways have been of brief duration … But there are ways to get inside the head of even a coconut if you really need to do it by deadline … This is true survival of the best news-delivery agent, and it’s about time. Either the people who read us will decide we have something special and buy in but good, or they will do it themselves and our word processors will flash blankly. So be it. These new demands can offer information delivery a bracing restorative.”
Date of prediction: July 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
Title, headline, chapter name: Into the Net: A Reporter’s Transformation
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1994/jul/reporter.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stewart, Ben L.