I’m a firm believer that electrons are a much better way to communicate than dead trees.
Predictor: Steiger, Paul
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article he wrote for Editor & Publisher, George Garneau reports on “The Future of Print Journalism in the Digital Age,” a Cambridge, Mass., conference held in May and sponsored by Computer Sciences Corp. After talking with Paul Steiger of the Wall Street Journal, Garneau writes:”‘I’m a firm believer that electrons are a much better way to communicate than dead trees,’ said Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal managing editor. Pointing to the successful startup of Smart Money magazine, a joint venture of Dow Jones and Hearst that has won 500,000 readers, and the Journal’s successful new mutual fund listings on newsprint, Steiger warned not to ignore ‘old technology.’ Financial tables on newsprint will go away someday, he said, but computers cannot replicate the ability of newspapers to interest readers in things they did not know they were interested in.”
Date of prediction: May 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Newspapers
Name of publication: Editor & Publisher
Title, headline, chapter name: Techies Meet with Journalists
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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