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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
"There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form." Does no one else think Ballmer's on drugs - again? Digitally-delivered words may be much more common in 10 years but this is like predicting we'll have flying cars in a few more years. It's just not practical for everyone to have a digital device to read content with. If I'm at the grocery store and want to buy a magazine and don't have my latest Sony Reader (or whatever) with me, how am I going to buy it? Do you think they won't have any for sale? If I don't have a PC (plenty of real people don't have their own and won't 10 years from now), how do I buy a book? Do you think everyone will have Kindles (or the equivalent)? I doubt it. If I buy gasoline and want to run in and buy a copy of the newspaper, do you think they won't have one for sale? Of course they will.
And what about (dare I ask?) DRM and the protection of intellectual property and the multiplicity of hardware devices and digital formats? Does anyone think those problems will somehow evaporate allowing for the great proliferation of digital words?
I think there will be plenty of old-fashioned books, magazines, and newspapers 10 years from now (unless we're all under water by then or caught up in some other crisis). |
VR: Remember the "trusted platform" that Intel/MS and others have advanced is a platform that they feel can be trusted to allow you to buy their content and not be able to share it with others. Where they can turn off offending content and processes that they do not want you to see or run. Is it any wonder that many governments outside the US do not use Windows for their computers? What military defense (military is always for defensive purposes isn't it?) computer manager would feel secure running a Windows based system if they were facing the US? Think of the amount of code and processing power Vista uses just to keep the systems from being able to copy HD content