For some reason, hearing that the unthinkable is now reality is comforting. What I mean is, in this blog, called "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable," the author explains that journalism as we know it is over. It's ok, though, because whatever will come next to replace our current news world will work for us. We'll be OK.
He compares us to 1500 when the printing press was first coming into use. Not 1400 pre-press or 1600 after. We're in the middle of a crazy revolution and we don't know what the other end will look like. The nut of the story, buried all the way down at the bottom, says:
When we shift our attention from ’save newspapers’ to ’save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.
It's long for a blog, but really, really worth the read. It basically tells all us writer folks to get our tails from between our legs and keep thinking. Any one of us could be imagining the next, necessary thing.
Speaking of necessary things, I got this link from Julian, on facebook. Ahh the future.
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