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From: Doug.Thompson@p101.f162.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Doug Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Electronic Newspapers
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Date: 7 May 89 21:12:02 GMT
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 > From: zifrony@TAURUS.BITNET
 
 > So, to conclude, I think electronic newspapers can catch on with the
 > people having access to printers, used to print some of the material
 > to be read.
 >
 
Let's make a couple of speculative leaps into our technological future:
 
 1) Cheaper 19200 BAUD modems (or 56Kbaud ISDN)
 2) Cheaper laser printers
 3) a software graphics standard
 
The news service or newspaper can transmit to you the "news" in exactly 
thesame way they currently transmit it to whatever typesetting/output 
device they use to put it on paper.
 
You put it on paper if and when you want it on paper.
 
The paper problem is well on its way to being solved.
 
In my own personal opinion, material is more useful to me if it is in 
electronic rather than paper form. I can get my computer to scan a few 
megabytes of text for subject material that I'm interested in more easily 
than I can do that with the New York Times on paper.
 
I suspect that hardware and software improvements in the next few years 
will result in a steadily growing demand for news in electronic form, 
though I doubt that the demand for it on paper will every entirely 
disappear. People still raise and buy horses now don't they!
 
=Doug
 


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