E-mail can be a terrific medium for reporters. E-mail interviews are both less intrusive and allow for more reflection. I am convinced that e-interviews will become a terrific medium and a standard tool for a large amount of journalism around the world – if only reporters can learn some digital decorum.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Being Digital,” Nicholas Negroponte writes: ”E-mail can be a terrific medium for reporters. E-mail interviews are both less intrusive and allow for more reflection. I am convinced that e-interviews will become a terrific medium and a standard tool for a large amount of journalism around the world – if only reporters can learn some digital decorum.”
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: Communication
Subtopic: E-mail
Name of publication: Being Digital (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 15: Good Connections
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 192
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