Just how an Internet-based news culture can spread the kind of "light" that is necessary to prevent terrible things, without the armies of reporters and photographers that newspapers have traditionally employed, is a question that even the most ardent democrat in John Dewey's tradition may not wish to see answered. Full Story »
Posted by Subramanya Sastry
My problem with articles of this sort is realizing that I will not be alive on the date that is predicted and I will not be around to see whether it happened. One, I won't be able to see it happene; two, it is a reminder that my window is closing. But, with the rapid change in technology, particularly in the communication field, and with the apparent acceleration of news apathy, the end of at least print media may come much sooner than predicted in the article.
