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[ PRIVACY Forum ] The Head of Google News on the Future of News
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The Head of Google News on the Future of News
http://j.mp/IQpiW4 (MIT)
He starts with his main point: The pace of technological change
will not abate, and to think of our current time as a transition
between two eras, rather than a continuum of change, is a mistake.
There has been tremendous disruption in journalism, but there are
upsides: everyone has a printing press, there are no gatekeepers
[or at least new gatekeepers], and journalism can and will be
better than in the past.
- - -
The point about our being in a technology (and policy) *continuum* is
critically important to understand. Most of the details that we sweat
over every day in these realms will likely be relegated to background
footnotes in the future -- if that. It has always been that way with
technology. Keeping our contributions to the "whole" in mind, would
seem a useful community-positive approach.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
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