Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers
Message-ID: <3226@looking.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 05:41:45 GMT
References: <8905090916.AA04823@s2.Tau.Ac.IL>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In the future, the distinction between TV and print news will blur.  You'll
pop up a menu on the screen, point at stories that match your clipping
program, and be given the option of viewing pictures, video, commentary,
short written reports, detailed written reports or following hypertext
like chains to other stories and references. 

In a good newspaper, you'll have pointers to reports and opinion not just
by columnists, but by the actual participants in the story.   Want to
read Reagan's own comments?  Select him on the menu.

We may still call them newspapers, but they will not look much like them.

And it will be impossible to censor, short of a police state.  I speak
from authority on this, as one of the world's first "victims" of
computer censorship.   In all the places where my work has been banned
from computers, people have still be able to get it.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473