The newspaper of the future as the “Daily Me” – a totally personalized newspaper tailored directly to each reader’s taste. If you’re a Boston Red Sox fan working in a patent law firm, partial to quirky news stories but deeply interested in foreign affairs, your edition of the paper will reflect those preferences. My edition, emphasizing economic and political news, music, entertainment and arena football, may contain some of the same stories, but not all.
Predictor: Bender, Walter
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for American Journalism Review, Kate McKenna reports on how the newspaper industry plans to get involved in the age of computer networks, interviewing Walter Bender of MIT. McKenna writes:”Walter Bender, one of the MIT [Media Lab] visionaries, sees the newspaper of the future as the ‘Daily Me’ – a totally personalized newspaper tailored directly to each reader’s taste. If you’re a Boston Red Sox fan working in a patent law firm, partial to quirky news stories but deeply interested in foreign affairs, your edition of the paper will reflect those preferences. My edition, emphasizing economic and political news, music, entertainment and arena football, may contain some of the same stories, but not all. There are other NIF [News in the Future] projects, but the aim of the five-year project is unclear.”
Date of prediction: October 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: American Journalism Review
Title, headline, chapter name: The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Volume 15, Issue 8, Page 16
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney