Media outlets are an ever-changing aspect of people's lives, and in USA Today's 30-year anniversary edition, they focused in part on what news, T.V., movie and music may look like in another 30 years.
USA Today believes that with a digital world shaping the expectations of readers, the reader will play the biggest role in the news of the future.
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The readers are making their demands louder and clearer each day, and seem to be shouting, "We want more and we want it faster."
Some are screaming, "We want to be part of it too."
I agree with USA Today and the notion that contributions from readers will reshape news as we know it--it already has.
However, I don't agree that should be the way.
Maybe, I should tweet about it.
I also thought that USA Today's writer took sort of a vague perspective, that may have been pandering to the audience a bit too much.
They might as well have come out with and said, "We need you. Don't leave us, please."
The newspaper also interviewed Gina Centrello of Random House Publishing in regard to the future of books.
I found her to be a bit too optimistic.
No one wants to say that her job title may be gone in a few decades, but the notion that it won't change very much at all seems ridiculous.
I believe that paper books will always have a place, but as a book-lover, I am concerned with their fate.
Digital books are considerably cheaper and you can have them at your finger tips in just moments.
These are two qualities that people my age and younger find to be very important.
Filmmaker James Cameron seemed to be more on target with his projection of the movie industry's future.
Perhaps that is the nature of his own mindset though.
He believes that people will start thinking out of the box, or rectangle, rather.
He envisions a future of glasses you put on and 3-D images come to you.
While that is pretty cool, it is not for me.
If I want to put on glasses and see 3-D objects, I'll slip on my old Dollar General shades and go to the park.
Antonio Reid, music mogul, said he foresees that the music industry will only get better and that songwriters and musicians will always be important.
I sure hope so because I am not very pleased with what we have now.
He also said that he thinks one of the bigger changes will be that an industry standard for method of delivery will be adopted.
He is definitely right on with that thought.
Everyone would probably be using only MP3s if it weren't for people like me who have no idea how to download them onto a device.
I like CDs and records because I can hold them, but eventually they will be gone.
As a whole, I thought this feature was very well put together.
I enjoyed hearing the views from top dogs of each media outlet.
Now, to put this paper in a box and see who was right in 30 years.
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