NY Times futurist predicts e-paper generation
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 26 September 2006 at 16:29
Tags: E-paper, New York Times
The New York Times’ newly-appointed “futurist-in-residence,” Michael Rogers, predicts that the next generation of newspaper readers will have no “emotional attachment” to paper as the medium on which they read.
“Paper is a high-resolution, high-contrast, unbreakable and extremely inexpensive display device,” Rogers said in an interview with IWantMedia, predicting that it would not disappear as a news delivery platform for many years.
Within 15 years, though, he predicts that a “substantial part of our audience will have grown up already doing much more of their reading on screen, and they’re not likely to have the same emotional attachment to paper as does much of the current readership.”
The New York Times recently launched Times Reader, software that displays the newspaper on tablet PCs. Slate has a comprehensive review.
Tags: E-paper, New York Times
