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A Glimpse of the Future of News circa 1981
Nick Bilton at the New York Times posted this video on Twitter this morning and I thought it was worth blogging here. I love retro-future stuff, particularly when it comes to media. It starts out, "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 as far-fetched as it may seem."
In this case, KRON, a local Bay Area station, takes a look at the future of news delivery (it's also on TechCrunch. The ancient computers with the clickety-clackety keyboard shown here are the gateway to some of the earliest experiments in digitizing the news: text-only versions of the paper transmitted over phone lines in 1981.
Twenty-eight years later, getting our news with photos and videos in full color on a laptop or a mobile device is pretty much standard. I love this look forward from a long time ago.