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mostly i think people like to say "such and such will be dead in five years" because it makes good copy....nm

Posted by xi (aka dmuck) Aug 6 '10, 12:28

even when it's generally overreaching bs

Responses:

Guttenburg killed the illuminator star -- nm - Zeitgeist Aug 6, 12:40
Negroponte isn't trying to sell magazines or newspapers. -- nm - Mop (223 lbs) Aug 6, 12:33 9
- i know. he's a techno-optimist with a track record for overpredicting how things will change....nm - xi Aug 6, 12:37 1
  - OLPC will change the world! -- nm - Mop (223 lbs) Aug 6, 12:39
- Its an asinine assertion. E-books are a fundamentally different manner of consuming the media. It's not like VHS to DVD or CDs to iPods. - TFox Aug 6, 12:34 6
  - Your trashy paperback example doesn't fly. - Ender Aug 6, 12:43 2
    - You think in 36 months, if we say "hey, world's bookreaders? get ready, because from now on you're reading off a fucking *screen*, bitches!"... - TFox Aug 6, 12:47 1
      - this tells me that you haven't picked up a Kindle or the equivalent - Reagen Aug 6, 12:50
  - I just want to point out that the picture on the front page of Amazon.com is a chick with a Kindle on the beach. -- nm - Mop (223 lbs) Aug 6, 12:40 1
    - heh. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 6, 12:41
  - dude, you are *killing* me...nm - xi Aug 6, 12:39
its really easy to do once they caveat it with "well, not totally dead, but just, y'know, less of the market than it is now. dead-ish." -- nm - TFox Aug 6, 12:30 2
- that's the stuff....nm - xi Aug 6, 12:32
- "I feel happy! I feel happy!" -- nm - papyrus Aug 6, 12:31
"The pace of technologic change will gradually favour one form of distribution over another" - Reagen Aug 6, 12:30 1
- *gives you a znulitzer prize* -- nm - znufrii Aug 6, 12:30
Is this about James Bond? -- nm - David Aug 6, 12:30 7
- the movie guy or the st poster?....nm - xi Aug 6, 12:33 1
  - yes! -- nm - Spawn Aug 6, 12:33
- (The latest Entertainment Weekly acts like Bond is dead.) -- nm - David Aug 6, 12:32 4
  - a Bond-is-dead-maybe ending a la Inception would be pretty cool. -- nm - Max Aug 6, 12:47
  - my initial impression is MGM might be nearing death, but Bond isn't -- nm - crash davis Aug 6, 12:36
  - i will be sorry to never again see a james bond movie....nm - xi Aug 6, 12:34
  - Long live Bond! -- nm - Spawn Aug 6, 12:33
curmudgeonly posts will be dead in five years - crash davis Aug 6, 12:29 2
- i will print them out and mail them to you.....nm - xi Aug 6, 12:30 1
  - make sure they are suitable for framing -- nm - crash davis Aug 6, 12:32

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