Newspapers Are Dead

So say the signs on every street. Digital and main has a neon billboard saying the same.

Since the papers, TV, online and off tell us the same, and often.

It must be true, I heard/saw/read it, somewhere.

Of course, it is rarely true, that which is heard or read in such fine print, in such small articles. Each one carefully edited, counted and typeset, or broadcast wide and shallow.

The Fourth Estate Must Survive

And since it must, it will. But physics trumps economics as well as philosophy. Physics says that location and time must be used. To be used well, must first be understood. In this time, what physics has delivered is the death of dying trees. The demise or diminution of those that live off timber. The time that is closed is the time of the

The Daily Tree.

Our need for atoms is what is changing. With that change, more than the means of collection and distribution must change.

And since it must, it will.

What Comes Next

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