Murdoch says “The future is online” ? huh? really?
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said “the future of newspapers is digital, but it may be 10 to 15 years before readers go fully electronic”. Something about the people not seeing what is happening to them in real time.
The problem is that these individuals don’t fully understand the rate of adoption, and just how fast things are moving forward. I think he needs to understand that this happened 15 years ago… and in aggregate he is literally 3 decades off … 30 years..
About 10-15 years ago, people started reading online in mass numbers… circa early 1990′s when they hit their dialups and started reading news on AOL or Compuserve or whatever content provider they had at the time..
Now the rate is nearing 100% … in 15 years from now kids will ask “they used to chop down trees to deliver ink to your house for news?”
You’re taking a 30 year span that Murdoch is stating, I’m arguing that this took place 15 years ago… and he’s “predicting” it will take place 15 years from now.
Epic disconnect between the reality on the ground and what he is stating, no wonder these newspapers are going into bankruptcy one after another….
That was the last newspaper printed prior to people finding out about the news faster on radio, TV or online.
