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RE: And so it goes... by: Theo Valich on 4/18/2009
Well, I could find some of my older articles that touched the media... but it is easier for me to write again....
"when newspapers appeared, doomsayers thought that newsreaders will die - not true, they still earn money to this date by selling papers on frequent places.
when radio appeared, doomsayers said that newspapers are going to die - not true, we're still reading papers.
When TV appeared, people said newspapers and radio are going to die.
When Internet appeared, doomsayers said everything else is going to die."

Unfortunately for those doomsayers, their predicament turned flat on'em everytime. Too bad those doomsayers are always the people in control of the actual media.

I wonder will they shut down OTOY and OnLive because they won't be able to detect not-potentially-but-guaranteed huge revenue stream?
And so it goes... by: General Lee D. Mented on 4/17/2009
And now to violate my own copyright by quoting myself from a 2005 article:

"Player piano scrolls, which were punched paper rolls that controlled the key presses of an automatic piano, were a heavy source of contention and resisted because they were thought to be a threat to the business of piano players. The original wax recording drums and vinyl records were heavily resisted as well, as a threat to live performances. Radio was thought to be the beginning of the end for records, movies were seen as anathema to stage performers, television would destroy movies, the VCR would destroy both television and movies, mp3 files traded over napster would end sales of compact discs, and bittorrent would kill the DVD market.
In every case, without fail, the entertainment publishing industry has been dragged kicking and screaming into a new paradigm. Every single time, content has become cheaper, more widely available, and yet exponentially more profitable. Technology makes things easier, but this is seen as a threat to the old way, and the old way is clung to desperately while the world changes around it."
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