yesterday’s news tomorrow

What would a newspaper look like if it was invented today?

Mu.
It’s a meaningless question, like:
“What would a telegraph look like if it was invented today?”
It wouldn’t be, couldn’t be,
and it’s successors are already in our hands. 
But it’s a safe question for the old guard of journalism:
 It lets them feel like they’re in control of the future
by framing the present in the past that they own.

The future of news is not a slick, ‘interactive’ iPad app that delivers tightly controlled, editorialized content. That’s yesterday’s news dressed up in today’s gadgets. The future of news is you and i connected, sharing and co-creating …

It’s a future that severely threatens the media giants of the previous era who are trying to rewind the clocks and promise us an ‘interactive’ future … which is to say, a glossy future of anemic, shallow participation, a future that we ditched years ago along with our cd-roms. 

And this is the curse of the iPad:
it’s designed to make us crave the interactive
instead of the connective.