of future and men

i feel it necessary to defend my self. over the course of a dinner last night i rambled on about how the world was changing and what changes were on the horizon. perhaps i bored the hell out of my dinner companions. when i jump into these rabbit holes, i know not whether it was the blue or the red pill but i do know i am onto something. increasingly i see the literary world most at risk. i see newspapers and books fading off - being replaced by electronic denizen tabloids, blogs that run journalistic desks, discrete punch holes in the firewalls of pakistan, china, iran, iraq and afghanistan that pour raw data onto unknowing masses. these changes will forever punish the literary world for not reading the tea leaves earlier.

old newspaper ideologies will drive profit and sustainability into early graves. journalists who can take advantage of the new media flows that circle the globe constantly will become the new media players of our time.  what i have seen over my career in information is that most information is freely available and that it is in the interpretation that we often fail.

newspapers and magazines that copy their style and thinking in the electronic medium are doomed to fail. Research, source, write, release will be replaced by write, release, modify and modularize. by modularize i mean that your thoughts whence written will be changed into something different perhaps unlike your original intent. you will then need to capture what your ideas has become and make it your own and hopefully profit from it in the future. profit is not money profit is acumen and reverence.

i believe all media is at risk and i believe the way we receive information will undergo such a significant revolution that we will look back at information overload as merely a synapse misfiring. we are at the moment in our lives where we can not handle the entirety of the data that is available to us. however through advances in bio - computing and nanotechnology a new information frontier is near. these are not just disciplines that are only academic, companies have been formed and continue to be formed that will exploit bio computing and nanotechnology for good and for profit(note the difference)

do you have any thoughts germany