Everyone in the world should be able to have his or her own personal newspaper.
And perhaps someday, everyone will.
If you consider all of the content of current news providers to make up a virtual newsstand, then everyone should be able to pick the content of their very own newspaper every day, have it printed and delivered to them at home, at work or at a local coffee shop, wherever.
In the end, newspapers would cease to be about what’s “officially” happening in the world, and would become a reflection of an individual’s perception of what’s happening the world. Put another way, people would be able to follow their keen interests in the world every day, instead of having to ferret out their interests from under the complicated hodge-podge of news that is presented to them everyday.
People would get in the habit of showing each other their newspapers and thus express their identities, perhaps even more directly and vividly than their clothes, their cars, their perfume, their college, their jobs currently do.
Your newspaper may lead off with an environmental breakthrough concerning global warming, the current grand slam tennis tournament halfway round the world, a piece about a new museum opening in a small town on the other side of the globe, and an obit of a rock star.
My newspaper the same day, might be much more national in interest and lead off with the day’s DOW, carry a piece on the NBA season, review the best off-broadway play currently on view in New York, and guess at the frontrunners for that year’s OSCAR movies.
You name it, your newspaper and my newspaper would both be absolutely uptodate, but quite different in makeup, due to our personalities and interests, developed through answers that we both had given in a survey that we had both filled out, leading to a software program that each day searches the virtual newsstand for relevant stories.
Your newspaper would reflect you and my newspaper would reflect me.
Many people worry that readers would lose that context that is given to them by the so-called “news of the day” as presented on television, on the web and in traditional newspapers everywhere, repetitively.
Not true, because the “news of the day” would still be available on television, on the web and in traditional newspapers everywhere, repetitively.
The personal newspaper would be a new experience. A separate news product.
Nuclear families would need not one newspaper but four, just as they now need not one phone but four.
Subscribers would have their choice of hundreds of news outlets to get their news instead of one, just as cable has given subscribers their choice of hundreds of channels.
Newspapers would finally have exited the 19th Century when mass production was the driving force. And joined the 21st Century where personalization is the driving force. Peter Van
And perhaps someday, everyone will.
If you consider all of the content of current news providers to make up a virtual newsstand, then everyone should be able to pick the content of their very own newspaper every day, have it printed and delivered to them at home, at work or at a local coffee shop, wherever.
In the end, newspapers would cease to be about what’s “officially” happening in the world, and would become a reflection of an individual’s perception of what’s happening the world. Put another way, people would be able to follow their keen interests in the world every day, instead of having to ferret out their interests from under the complicated hodge-podge of news that is presented to them everyday.
People would get in the habit of showing each other their newspapers and thus express their identities, perhaps even more directly and vividly than their clothes, their cars, their perfume, their college, their jobs currently do.
Your newspaper may lead off with an environmental breakthrough concerning global warming, the current grand slam tennis tournament halfway round the world, a piece about a new museum opening in a small town on the other side of the globe, and an obit of a rock star.
My newspaper the same day, might be much more national in interest and lead off with the day’s DOW, carry a piece on the NBA season, review the best off-broadway play currently on view in New York, and guess at the frontrunners for that year’s OSCAR movies.
You name it, your newspaper and my newspaper would both be absolutely uptodate, but quite different in makeup, due to our personalities and interests, developed through answers that we both had given in a survey that we had both filled out, leading to a software program that each day searches the virtual newsstand for relevant stories.
Your newspaper would reflect you and my newspaper would reflect me.
Many people worry that readers would lose that context that is given to them by the so-called “news of the day” as presented on television, on the web and in traditional newspapers everywhere, repetitively.
Not true, because the “news of the day” would still be available on television, on the web and in traditional newspapers everywhere, repetitively.
The personal newspaper would be a new experience. A separate news product.
Nuclear families would need not one newspaper but four, just as they now need not one phone but four.
Subscribers would have their choice of hundreds of news outlets to get their news instead of one, just as cable has given subscribers their choice of hundreds of channels.
Newspapers would finally have exited the 19th Century when mass production was the driving force. And joined the 21st Century where personalization is the driving force. Peter Van
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