I was honored to be asked by Rosental Alves<\/a> to chair\/moderate a talk with some amazing panelists (Rahul Chopra<\/a>, senior vice president video at News Corp; Daniel Eilemberg<\/a>, senior vice president, chief digital officer at Fusion; Rebecca Howard<\/a>, general manager video, The New York Times; Riyaad Minty<\/a>, project lead of AJ+ at Al Jazeera; Katharine Zaleski<\/a>, managing editor at NowThis News), under the topic of Life After Television<\/a>, a book written by George Gilder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Alves explained his vision in planning the panel around the book, I went to the library and checked out both the hardcover<\/a> and book on (cassette) tape<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For my intro talk, I wanted to summarize and try to explain Gilder\u2019s book and, inspired by its predictions (and the 80s), I decided to add my own grand prediction.<\/p>\n

Here are the slides, in animated GIF form, with some text to explain my thoughts.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Gilder is known to have said some controversial things about women, people of color and more. While I vehemently disagree with his statements, let\u2019s focus on the book, which was quite impressive.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe book, which was published in 1990, has many innovative ideas\u2026 the first being that it contained advertising for FedEx every five or six pages. <\/p>\n

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\/\/ Slide 02<\/strong>
\nThe short book had a collection of fantastic lines that I wanted to quote. Here is a small a collection. What is impressive is that he essentially describes today\u2019s major players of the Web. He was, however, a bit off with the type of quality, educational and informative content he hoped would be created. <\/p>\n

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\/\/ Slide 03<\/strong>
\nPerhaps it was the timing of Harold Ramis<\/a>\u2019 death, perhaps it is that I am overly influenced by the 80s, but the book reminded me of the infamous scene in Ghostbusters where Egon (Ramis) declares \u201cprint is dead<\/a>.\u201d (But it appears that print outlived Egon. How nerds react to that joke<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I took Gilder\u2019s book as an Egon-esque declaration television is dead. So, I was inspired to make a bold \u2013 and clearly early \u2013 declaration too.<\/p>\n

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\/\/ Slide 04<\/strong>
\nMobile is dead!!! And by that, I really mean, mobile phones\u2026 the devices we carry in our purses or back pockets. Wearables \u2013 which have been around since the 80s thanks to the work by Steven Mann \u2013 have finally begun to mature. It\u2019s not about white guys wearing glass<\/a>\u2026 or brown guys<\/a>, despite the coverage.<\/p>\n

The future is\u2026 STOP! It\u2019s not the device.<\/p>\n

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\/\/ Slide 05<\/strong>
\nIf you believe that content is still king, then it\u2019s not about the device. It\u2019s about the content that we optimize on that device. (Please don\u2019t say the \u2018medium is the message,\u2019 because I believe that is wrong.)<\/p>\n

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\/\/ Slide 06<\/strong>
\nSo, if it\u2019s not mobile\u2026 and it\u2019s content\u2026 what the hell am I talking about? One type of technology that I do believe will play a role in the (not-so-distant) future is augmented reality. <\/p>\n

This tech we\u2019ve seen in Sci-Fi is real. Re+public labs have used it to augment art\/murals in public spaces, with this example in Austin during SXSW. (Learn more here: http:\/\/www.republiclab.com\/projects<\/a>)<\/p>\n

And my students and I have produced AR Storytelling + Journalism, by augmenting the downtown Los Angeles Public Library. (Learn more here: http:\/\/arjournalism.tumblr.com<\/a> and watch the video<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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We live in the future. So, journalism better adapt.<\/p>\n

P.S. I’m trolling here… kinda. I do believe mobile PHONES will die sooner than we think and replaced by what’s next, like wearables. It’s inevitable. This “declaration” was made in line with the hyperbole from Gilder and “Egon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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