Imagine an electronic newspaper delivered to your home as bits. Assume it is sent to a magical, paper-thin, flexible, water-proof, wireless, lightweight, bright display. The interface solution is likely to call upon mankind’s years of experience with headlining and layout, typographic landmarks, images, and a host of other techniques to assist browsing … Imagine a future in which your interface agent can read every news wire and newspaper can catch every TV and radio broadcast on the planet, and then construct a personalized summary. This kind of newspaper is printed in an edition of one.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Being Digital,” Nicholas Negroponte writes:”Imagine an electronic newspaper delivered to your home as bits. Assume it is sent to a magical, paper-thin, flexible, water-proof, wireless, lightweight, bright display. The interface solution is likely to call upon mankind’s years of experience with headlining and layout, typographic landmarks, images, and a host of other techniques to assist browsing … There is another way to look at a newspaper, and that is as an interface to news. Instead of reading that other people think is news and what other people justify as worthy of the space it takes, being digital will change the economical model of news selections, make your interests take a bigger role, and, in fact, use pieces from the cutting-room floor that did not make the cut on popular demand. Imagine a future in which your interface agent can read every news wire and newspaper can catch every TV and radio broadcast on the planet, and then construct a personalized summary. This kind of newspaper is printed in an edition of one.”
Biography:Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and a popular speaker and writer about technologies of the future, wrote one of the 1990s’ best-selling books about the new future of communications, “Being Digital.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: February 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Newspapers
Name of publication: Being Digital (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 12: Less Is More
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 152, 153
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