The Online World resources handbook
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Gazing into the future http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/17.html<br />
Newspaper of the future<br />
Electronic news by radio<br />
Packet radio<br />
Cable TV<br />
<strong>The</strong> next generation dial up<br />
modem<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Online</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>resources</strong> <strong>handbook</strong><br />
Chapter 17:<br />
Gazing into the future<br />
Thoughts about things to come.<br />
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Satellite communications<br />
Electronic mail on the move<br />
<strong>The</strong> commercials go Internet<br />
Cheaper and better<br />
communications<br />
Wild dreams get real<br />
Newspaper of the future<br />
Rates<br />
Cheaper transfers of<br />
data<br />
Powerful new search<br />
tools<br />
Sources for future<br />
studies<br />
Years ago, Nicholas Negroponte of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that<br />
today's newspapers are old fashioned and soon to be replaced by electronic "ultra<br />
personal" newspapers.<br />
"If the purpose is to sell news," he said, then it must be completely wrong to sell<br />
newspapers. Personally, I think it is a dreadful way of receiving the news."<br />
MIT's Media Laboratory developed an electronic newspaper that delivered daily<br />
personalized news to each researcher. <strong>The</strong> newspaper was "written" by a computer that<br />
searched through news services' wires and other news sources according to each<br />
person's interest profile.<br />
<strong>The</strong> system could present the stories on paper or on screen. It could convert them<br />
to speech, so the "reader" could listen to the news in the car or the shower.<br />
In a tailor made electronic newspaper, personal news makes big headlines. If you<br />
are off for San Francisco tomorrow, the weather forecasts for this city makes the front<br />
page. Email from your son will also get there.<br />
"What counts in my newspaper is what I personally consider newsworthy," said<br />
Negroponte.<br />
He claimed the personal newspaper is a way of getting a grip on the information<br />
explosion. "We cannot do it the old way anymore. We need other agents that can do<br />
prereading for us. In this case, the computer happens to be our agent."<br />
Testing the concept<br />
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