Posted on 12/19/2013 2:07:31 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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Consider today's online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen. How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
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Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.
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What's missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who'd prefer cybersex to the real thing?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Wrong, wrong and more wrong.
Newsweek wrong? Again? Say it isn’t so!!
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” - Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. Seventy four years later we were on the moon.
I'm very careful about technology predictions. Really smart people have been getting it really wrong for a long time.
/johnny
/johnny
Hee Hee!
I have what would be multiple bookcases of books in my Kindle. It is great. People can now self-publish in e-book format with Amazon.
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” — H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
I’m guessing he got to the 8th grade, looked back on what he wrote in the 3rd grade and feels pretty silly now.
There are many publishing programs out there to take text and create e-books. I did it with some technical manuals for a small company.
/johnny
The world is stupid and contagious.
Do you have any recommendations on those programs?
I’ve been toying with writing a novel.
/johnny
“Guitar bands have no future.” - Decca executive explaining why he turned down the Beatles.
Here’s a good site: http://rinkworks.com/said/predictions.shtml
Given most of what is produced now, I’d be one of those that rather actors be silent.
I remember that, people including myself thinking it was going to be like CB radio. Oh my oh my if one could only travel back in time. “Yes, I would like to invest all my money in Yahoo and I have this idea for a website called Facebook and Youtube...”
It’s all graphic’s. Actors just do one-liners.
Super Bowl XLVIII prediction: Atlanta Falcons-Houston Texans
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