With talk of the wide screen Kindle helping to save the newspaper industry, it is amazing to look back to 1981 when even then the industry’s future was being predicted as limited, at best.
Regardless of where you stand on the issue, this video provides a view from 28 years ago when they predict “the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer, but that’s a few years off.”
Richard Halloran - way ahead of his time!
All predicted at a time when the time and cost of transferring data made the whole concept seem ludicrous.
The quote at the beginning of the video is great “Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not a far-fetched as it may seem. In fact, both local San Francisco papers are investing a lot of money to try and get a service just like that started.”
It seems that Richard Halloran was way ahead of his time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ
Matt Scott, DraftFCB
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