AFP
Oct 3, 2011
GENEVA — Newspapers will disappear and be replaced by digital versions by 2040, the UN intellectual property agency’s chief said in an interview published on Monday.
Francis Gurry, who heads the World Intellectual Property Organisation told the daily La Tribune de Geneve that “in a few years, there will no longer be printed newspapers as we know it today.”
“It’s an evolution. There’s no good or bad about it. There are studies showing that they will disappear by 2040. In the United States, it will end in 2017,” he said.
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Social networking websites are replacing ‘letters to the editor’. The editor of the newspaper had a god like status deciding what letter should be published or not. Now people simply write myriad personal social networking website and gripe over there in any way they like, with expletives included – no editing whatsoever. Electronic newspapers will only publish news, but will no longer have control over opinion – the people most likely to disappear are columnists and op-ed writers because not everyone agrees with them.
That’s okay. Newpapers lie anyway.
AandO Reply:
October 3rd, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Great for training puppies and lining Bird Cages. Aside from that I can see no redeeming value for them.