EmailIn the 1990s, the Dot Com boom took off because the Internet, for the first time, let anyone with an idea and computer launch their own online business.
There was an explosion of activity and new businesses are launched like mushrooms after a spring rain.
That was technology at work. The barrier to entry for starting a business had been blown away.
No need for offices, storefronts, desks, typewriters, or anything… all you needed was an idea, a computer and a URL.
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No News Today — or tomorrow for that matter.
March 26, 2024
For most of human history, people lived in a world without news. The concept simply did not exist. The idea of news is really a 19th-century phenomenon, driven first by newspapers, and then by electronic media which brought us radio, then TV and now the web. Now, it seems, we are headed back to a world without news. Not because the technology is not there, but rather because, increasingly, people are no longer interested in news, at least in the way it is packaged now.
What TV News Could Be
February 26, 2024
When television was invented in the 1930s, no one knew what TV news was supposed to look like. The medium had never existed before, and so, like Gutenberg half a millennium, prior, the first creators of TV news had to fall back on a medium with which they were familiar, and that was radio.
What Is News? What Should it Be?
February 20, 2024
Maybe scary stories drive ratings… or maybe they don’t.