What kinds of devices would we be using to get news in the future? Would everyone be clicking their eyes (perhaps, winking) and taking pictures of breaking news scenes or have some sort-of-a tiny bluetooth embedded in their ears?
I just scanned my sketch of the first device (tentatively titled as, "'My News' Coffee Holder'"). Once I translate the sketch into a computer graphic image, I'd definitely like to share with our friends of the bugler :)
I am creating a storyboard for our video on future journalism process this weekend. Send your thoughts and suggestions away! :)
Friday, April 3, 2009
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I really like your concept of a future in journalism in which the person literally becomes the mode of communication in reporting news.
It seems to be the logical progression. I have this image of the journalists in the 40's, 50's and 60's and the steps they had to take due to their eras' lack of technology, in order to get their story to the consumer... Write said story by hand or typewriter, telephone or telegraph story to editors and publishers, print story onto paper - or speak story into radio transmission, and then finally have news consumed by the reader/listener.
Gradually that process has been vertically integrated across the journalist's supply chain to the point where (as you and Kelley expose in a such an interesting way) a news item occurs and in a manner of minutes or even seconds, a few megabytes and key strokes have been exchanged and the news has been shared. The divide between the journalist and his or her audience has been dramatically shortened to an infinitesimally small distance.
It seems to only make sense like you point out Esther, that just as my fingers type a keyboard and rapidly communicate a news story to a consumer, in the future, that communication would be even faster and more efficiently tied to the reporter's own experience, linking the reporter and reader even more intimately.
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