The future of journalism is a topic which has generated a fair amount of journalistic material. It was getting to the point where I was beginning to think a large fraction of people in or related to the profession of journalism had become more interested in figuring out the future of journalism than actually working with the tools of the times and moving ahead (in which case the future of the profession could definitely be forecasting; tarot card tellers and mystics were getting old anyway). Then I read this amazing article called "Journalistic Nuclear Physics" on The Economist website.
Changing the meaning of the word "story", what an elegant and exciting thought! It's not really a prediction if you think about it. At this juncture with the juxtaposition of technology, the internet and social media, life has become persistent and continuous with fewer degrees of separation. What we do persists digitally, what we do next is linked to what we did before and the world has become a smaller place. Life is a succession of stories, and the stories are evolving in much the same way as the stuff they embody - life.
This was one article out of the seemingly endless ones on the "future" of journalism that actually made sense. I'd still maintain that the future is created by action, not speculation, so I guess I'm still not in favor of the obsession with figuring out the future instead of working on it. One article isn't quite enough to change my mind I suppose!
Changing the meaning of the word "story", what an elegant and exciting thought! It's not really a prediction if you think about it. At this juncture with the juxtaposition of technology, the internet and social media, life has become persistent and continuous with fewer degrees of separation. What we do persists digitally, what we do next is linked to what we did before and the world has become a smaller place. Life is a succession of stories, and the stories are evolving in much the same way as the stuff they embody - life.
This was one article out of the seemingly endless ones on the "future" of journalism that actually made sense. I'd still maintain that the future is created by action, not speculation, so I guess I'm still not in favor of the obsession with figuring out the future instead of working on it. One article isn't quite enough to change my mind I suppose!
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