A thought for an August morning.
What’s next?
Posts Tagged ‘digital’
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Telescopes
Everything will be digital – nothing else will exist. Books will vanish. Newspapers and magazines will fade away. Brick and mortar stores will become extinct. Packaging will be virtual. Art will be projected, broadcast or streamed. Concert venues, movie theaters and sports arenas will be a relic of the past. And, advertising will die out.
- I don't think digital will ever entirely replace "real world" experiences, but we will certainly have a bevy of new digital media in the years to come. I think that as technologies like digital ink move into the mainstream we will also have a renewed appreciation for things like letterpress printing. This is something we are already seeing. ...
- That is a cool point -- Marconi was never really sure what he was creating; neither was Alexander Graham Bell; I imagine that teh first human to roll a wheel like object didnt see mars rovers either......
- Speaking of bending things... ...MS and computers may well have been bending humans for a while, but humans have been bending their physical environments and social arrangements whenever they could. I don't expect the longer term outcome between IT and humans will be all that predictable. The blogosphere and lots of information sources are looking very individualistic and even ...
