Future Trends For Media Delivery - Where will RunRev Be?

[Sivakatirswami]

Jim Sims wrote:
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> On Jul 23, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
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>> A bit OT here, but I like to query the group on future trends from 
>> time to time just to sound the waters, ""blue sky" "what do you think 
>> about it" ...
>
> Maybe one of the first things to think about, when pondering the 
> future,  is what are the generational differences between old folks 
> like me who have actually held a real dead tree newspaper in my hands 
> vs those who use only their thumbs to SMS.
>
> Can or do people who grew up digital devices actually read more than 
> 140 characters without having a convulsion?
>
> Is there a difference between people who once experienced the piped 
> flow of information from Walter Cronkite's microphone vs those who 
> have only known swimming in a sea of informational sources?
>
> What is your definition of 'future'? Six months or fifty years?
>
>

Excellent questions, I have no answers, but small testimony. We have one 
of our IT consultants here from San Franscisco doing an on-site audit 
(list machines, network map, users etc..) At lunch one day we were 
chatting about colloborative tools, wiki vs google docs, vs whatever. He 
mentioned a medical office his company provides support for and one of 
the challenging issues there was that they did not use email. everyone 
in the clinic  just texts each other. When the support team asked, "Why 
don't you use email." Someone said: "Email is for old people!"

Like it or now, small bits is probably all that can be digested. Very 
interesting... I'm struggling to conceive of what kind of intellect 
develops in the absence of true literature Aurobindo, the Upanishads, 
Kafka, Das Kapital...

skts