Newsprint Will Be a Thing of the Past in 2017
Scott Karp is / was visiting Washington D.C. and made this observation.
Yesterday I took a river boat cruise on the Potomac river with some visiting family, and was fascinated to hear what the tour guide said about this innocuous building.
Turns out it was the newsprint warehouse for the Washington Post.
Based on his use of the Blackberry, he boldly predicted:
I’ll bet that in ten, maybe even five years, that warehouse on the river will be storing something other than newsprint — or it will be demolished entirely.
I’ll take that bet Scott, I’ll even give you 100:1 that you aren’t even close with your ten year window. Right now, there is nothing on the market that can make it possible to access everything that is in the Washington Post as well as ink on newsprint does. There is nothing in public development that comes close. Privately there may be some super gadget that will replace newspapers. But nothing so revolutionary can get to market and be widely affordable and accepted in a short decade.
If you think you have the best grasp of how you will get the news in 2017, here’s $2000 for your trouble.