Newspaper and TV shows have been our main source of news for many years. Discuss how the internet, mobile computing and latest trends in information publication (blogs, wikis, twitter) will have an effect on these 'older' technologies. (1/2 page)
When television was first introduced to the public, it was an expensive and non-essential technology. However, as production became more rampant and prices dropped, within two decades at the maximum, almost every household in every western country included a television. This had a direct effect on the sales of newspapers instantly, as news shows began to be aired. Who would bother reading when someone could tell the story, broadcast straight to your living room? The same effect is likely to occur with the introduction and monopolisation of new technologies; slowly television will become more controllable and it won’t be a matter of what is on at a specific time as internet connectivity will allow a user to watch anything at any given time. Newspapers will be phased out slowly too, with the only thing holding them in their place being tradition and cultural value. It is quite possible that mobile computing will take the place of a newspaper, though the concept of a newspaper may not be dropped straight away. For example, a newspaper (as it would appear on actual paper) may be downloaded by a mobile device for reading on the go, saving on paper and making things more efficient. As the internet expands exponentially, more information becomes available. Things which are static such as newspapers, and television which is broadcast in sequence, become unneeded as there will be more efficient, more useful technologies as alternatives. Overall, the concepts of television and newspapers will probably not change any time soon. There will be online newspapers, displayed in a similar fashion to physical ones, and channels will be prevalent for a long time yet, as companies usually charge for the option to watch commercial programs at a whim.
Since the introduction of television in the 1930's, it replaced the newspaper and other related print media almost immediately. While the newspaper is still available today, it was phased out as a less popular form of communication and replaced with a media that can families/individuals can watch from the comfort of their own family living room. However, with the recent advancements, it is more and more likely than technologies such a television will be replaced and the newspaper, totally, phased out and will merely become parts of stories older generations tell to younger generations. With internet connections available from just about any location (depending on reception) it is more likely that the internet which provide more means of communication than both newspapers and televsions combined, will be become more popular, as individuals can watch television, check e-mails, chat with friends and read on-line newspapers articles, all that the finger's tips of the individual. In all honesty, it encourages societies demand for instant gratification and have everything when the individuals demands it. However advancements such as these are more likely to have a more environmental-friendly approach than society has now. If technologies were able to be hand-held devices that were able to connect to interent and downloaded items or televison show that the users need/want, than the demand for printing newspapers would simply disappear. Therefore the demand of for cutting down trees decrease and the environmentist is happy. =]. As society is already, individuals can locate news articles over the internet without having to purchase an actual copy of 'The West Australian' or 'The Australian'. The concept of having a newspaper and television on a hand-held is not-as-far fetched as people imagine it to be and will it might take ages, the chances of newspapers and televisions becoming an obsolete form of communication or technology is still pretty high.
As each day goes past and the future becomes the present, I believe that the traditional news sources such newspapers and tv shows are getting slowly phased out due to society's preference of online and alternative news media.
For example, when I used to live in singapore. My dad would get the paper "The Straits Time" delivered daily to our place under a subscription. However, moving to Australia and I realised that that hasn't changed much either as my dad now reads "The Straits Times" at its online website. the paper is not important, its the news that it broadcasts.
I believe that traditional news sources are long outdated and unreliable. Let's imagine that the internet didn't exist at the moment and each day, to catch the news we would have to dash home by 6pm every night just to make sure that we are up-to-date on the current affairs of the days. What if we wake up on a rainy day one morning and find that our daily paper has been drenched through and through and utterly unledgible? this are just hypothesis however, the inconvenience of such mediums can be blatantly construed by such incidents.
The internet however can be accessed at time, it does not constrained its user. It doesn't matter anymore if we are too rushed in the morning to read the paper, we can do it on our phones whilst on the bus or train or at work etc. so what if we miss the 6pm news? the internet will allow for hourly news update to be availiable to us on our computers and mobiles.
mobile computing and the internet is shaping the way that people access news media in the future. it is reliable, updated frequently and availiable anytime, anywhere. the future will be the destruction of the limitations that have constrained us in history.
well obviously, these new technologies shall eventually phase out these older, more mundane ones. Reading the newspaper shall be done on small, hand held devices which also can be used to read books. librarys will become a thing of the past, instead being replaced with public internet cafe's as why would anyone go out to read a book when you could just download the book onto a hand held device and read it from there. TV's shall remain for many years to come as they are free to watch unlike streaming over the internet which eats up your download usage. how ever if we ever get past capping our usage, TV's may as well fade into the back ground as you have a huge variety of stations from all over the world whilst tv's are limited to local only stations.
People used to get their information from the TV and a newspaper for years but all of that’s changing now with the internet. Information is just as easily available on the internet when you open most search engines or ISP home pages then you are most likely going to see the latest news. When you open msn it comes up with msn today showing us the latest in entertainment, sport and normal news. So the news is in our face everywhere
Televisions use will not end until they and computers are the same thing because people are more likely to sit on a couch and watch the news on TV the flick around on the internet unless they are looking to learn about something specific.
In the future news will become more and more accessible on the move, already you can have the news text to your phone or you can use your phones internet connection to find out the latest information. Before we know it we will be able to go onto our phones and watch TV streamed to our phone, some phones this is already available.
Newspapers will soon be phased out I believe as the information is easy to get and readily available but news papers are still handy as you are not staring at a screen and all the latest information you would want to know is already there. But the internet is updated as quickly as information is found out.
well... older tech like news papers and stuff will never be replaced by stuff like the net and mobile computing. News papers dont only involve news. in the sunday times for instance it contains news, sport, real estate and many more. we also have local news papers/community newspapers and the information and articles will only be relevant to tht community. im sure if news papers were to be replaced with internet and high tech gadgets it will replace routines and hobbies/habits of many people. There are a majority of people that cant handle lookin at a screen for so long periods of time. there will be large amount of people who will start to get eyes dissabilites and problems from focussin on a screen for so long. especially how news papers like sunday times and western australia roughly about 400pages of a A3 page. it is so funn reading through news papers instead of clickin and waiting to load for the next page on the internet or on a phone. we have a large amount of recycled products that are goin to waste and by not producin news papers anymore this will drastically increase the amount of recycled products that news papers are made from. There r alot of recycled factory/companies (paper production) that are run by dissabled ppl. if we dont dont have news papers these poor dissabled ppl wont have any shops. bye bye:) without news papers old old old ppl will be lonely. instead of givin old ppl news papers at nursin homes they will end up with NOTHING!! lonely ppl they will will be. so cut down more trees and make news papers. usin computers tht conserve lots and lots of energy/electricity that comes from burnin coal which will have a worse affect on the environment. Wat is ur choice would u rather an environment tht is soo hot becos the hole in the ozone layer has grown from the amount of pollutants we produce from from burnin fossil fuels. or would u rather an environment tht u just have to plant more trees.......... its ur choice. bye
The internet is going to have a big affect on the newspaper and TV shows because it is a lot easier to view and get to. You don’t need to go out to the shops to buy a newspaper you can just go on your home computer and go on the news pages. There are many different types of news websites on the internet such as Google news, Yahoo7, nine MSN, ABC news and the list goes on and on. On most of these sites you can just type on a key word and it will come up with loads of different news articles. With the TV news and Newspaper you have to check or wait for a specific article/story on what you may be interested in but with the internet you can type in what you are looking for. The same is for mobile computing you can look at news on the go. So if you are out and about you can get out you mobile and have a look at what’s happening around the world or even locally. Soon I think the newspaper well be EXTINCT! Because it will have been taken over by the internet news. The TV and newspaper are slowly decreasing in popularity because many youths want there news to be quick and easy!
The affect of the current new generation of technologies is making the old generation like news papers and TV shows obsolete. The news paper could now be viewed online with the benefit of being able to only view the articles of your choice and you don’t have to carry around the excess baggage when you’re on the run. If you are watching a full on TV broadcast of the news and just want the sporting news or highlights would be a thing of the past, the news companies could create segments for each of the certain stories like one for sport, the plane crash in the US, the massive firework factory blaze and more for each certain story. When each person wants to cut out something involved in receiving the news, the technology is there. Don’t like getting down to the service station, get it on your pc. You can’t have the paper with as it is to bulky, use your iPod Touch. To bored of watching the full news story, watch a snapshot. To little time to read the newspaper or watch the news, watch what you want, when you want. This “upgrade”, there will be no waiting for the latest news. What about hope for the people who are not technologically “savvy”, well by the time that this “upgrade is done” everyone will be able to find the news online. So all the news programs will become obsolete to the faster, more select and more electronic news delivery system.
Theres always a negative to a positive idea. As new technological ideas continue to expand, older ideas seize and become 'out-dated'. Television and newspapers are slowly decreasing in popularity due to the popularity increase of newer, more advanced news sources such as the iphone, internet etc. Making information public was difficult prior to the invention of youtube, twitter, blogs and many other internet communication systems. The effect that this is having on paper companies and television news studios is huge and really big. The newspaper company has to purchase paper and ink from their business, however with the increase of internet users the availability of the news reports has increased accordingly. Therefore, the production of these newer technologies are affecting many industries. My opinion is, keep making these things but not to the point where we dont do anything. Thats my answer.
Newer technology will obviously always have an effect on older technologies by making older technologies obsolete and therefore inconvenient in the world in which it now finds itself. The newer technologies that are constantly being introduced do not only redesign older products but constantly introduce new themes and concepts to the market making it the by far the most favourable choice of the modern generation.
The newspaper and TV shows have been completely matched and possibly ousted (depending on your point of view) by the host of sites offered to anyone with an internet connection. Videos and Articles are both being copied onto the internet for absolutely free use, they are available at any time that it is wanted and take up absolutely no physical space. This means that anybody that has access to the internet does not have to schedule their lives around the airing and producing of the news and media; for instance a businessman does not have to rush home from work to catch the 6 o'clock news on channel 7 but can instead come home when he wishes and go onto the 7/Yahoo and read the news articles and and watch only the news video's that he wants to. Because of this simply more convenient and more efficient way of transmitting the news younger generations are choosing this form of news.
Mobile Computing is a simply the convenient choice for anyone that travels constantly or or has no internet at their place/s of work. It allows the previously mentioned websites that are in place for news purposes (Yahoo7, ninemsn News, CNN.com, etc) to access the news that they want at anytime that they choose. This makes it the obvious choice the people that are ready to embrace this sort of technology.
Other technologies that have no predecessors are another further choice that people are switching to the internet for is the internet giants of Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They provide not only community based knowledge but also allow people to communicate with friends and share anything that they feel necessary.
All of these reasons and examples clearly show why the internet is the logical choice over the restrictive and inconvenient relics that are the newspapers and news programs.
Yes, it’s true that our main source of news for many years has been (and still is) mainly from the daily newspapers and news TV shows. However now days a big shift form news outlets (older news outlets) have expanded to new means of news outlets such as formal publications (online news websites, blogs, Youtube videos, mobile news) and less formal publications (self blogs, wikis and twitter). These new means of technologies have and continue to impact the older news outlets.
So why are many loyal customers who read the newspaper switching to newer means of technology for their daily news? Well there are several reasons why, firstly for a typical daily newspaper it would cost around $2-$3 but with online news it’s free (except for the connection fee). Secondly online news offers more news because it can websites can upload more news articles, where as newspapers can only be a certain thickness. Thirdly the electronic news offers special sections such as ‘breaking news’ as it happens so you as the reader will find out about the recent events as they happen, you don’t have to wait a whole day for the news to be printed. Fourthly the world is becoming more environmentally friendly, the greener the better is how the majority of our society works right now, if newspapers were eradicated the amount of trees that would be saved would be a lot. Also the printing companies and recycling companies would save a lot of power, which in turn would save the pollutants of the energy used.
These reasons are all positive therefore driving the shift from the old technology to the new technology means. Newspapers and TV shows would be impacted the most because they would see a big decrease of listeners and audiences. Such as how many of us what answers straight away? ALL OF US! How ever back in the day we would have to wait a long time till the news would flash on the weather forecast, which at time would be too fast to register. So instead a person would go online, type in weather in Google then BAM! Its right there, no waiting around.
We as a society can expect many newspaper companies to shift to the online news technology for it’s main outsourcing of spreading news, we could still expect small amounts of newspapers to be printed except the concept of reading a paper would be considered ‘old school’ instead we can expect many people switching from the soft white and black paper to the small useful laptop or mobile phone. TV however I think would be effected but not so much because it’s a way of life for people to sit down and watch the news. People work all day then get home cook and watch the news for all the latest.
To me I think this shift has too many positives that heavily outweighs the negatives therefore it’s a great technological move that will benefit our world in many ways
slowly we will find that buying newspapers and magazines are old, esp if you are looking at them for gossip or information. teenagers these days find that, searching celebs daily news, information for health tips or school work, internet is the helpful and easy one. slowly you find that teenagers no longer buy mags or newspapers but our parents still do. but when we become older, do you think we might continue buying or will we might find them a waste of money when we can just see these information free online.. there are sites online that provide information so us viewers can be informed, but they are not thinking about the outcome in our future.. we are starting to depend on technology for communication, so what about the phone? speaking about the net, we don't find peoples using email to communicate, we use facebook, msn, myspace etc. and slowly these "old" use of "old" days are slowly going to die. new generations comes in, growing with the technology and because of the mental growth for young by technology, printing information is going to be old school. soon you might find that primary schools or high schools, using technology to inform each other or use at class for everyday learning. Not even that, some schools are already using laptops in class. and that shows how fast technology has taken over. it can be a good and a bad thing but .. technology is going to be a quick, fast movement which takes over half of our support on earth. I reckon we depend too much on technology, not using our brains or the prints provided for us.
There are a few reasons why techmology is trying to take out things like a good morning paper and TV, But in a personal note, I'd rather take a newspaper whereever and have actual reading expeirince while keeping up with news than wait to get home from working on a computer from Nine to Five and come home to another computer to further irritate me or read news news on the bus with teeny-weey-eyestrain-o-vision. However, I can't keep trying to ignore the giant that is internet news and it's sprogs of blog pages and portable computers. Soon the world will become dependant on computers, not a person without a laptop just at the time they can talk and walk. food, costs, bills and other essentials will all become machine used by some degree. Soon the need to think becomes a misnoma and the want for some self learing expeirence and purpose on this world would became a laughable term. I'd be worried if man turns to technology for every human need, someone wrong is bound to happen. So yeah, fast accesible information about the world, and the loss of the need of verbal communication. Hoo-rah. And FYI, if this does actually happen, I'd like you all to remember that a called it.
If you want to find anything out, whether it be news on the latest catastrophe, who won the Derby last Saturday, or even what the weather will be tomorrow, the internet has it all. Not only is it a very quick and reliable way to find the information you need, but it also does not require thousands of trees to be cut down for paper production like newspapers do. Newspapers are quickly becoming redundant, if only for the sheer amount of information you can easily find on the internet, and the convenience in which you can do so. Sure, some people may still like to have the newspaper around (after all, we need something to read while in the dunny don’t we), and it does give us a feeling of nostalgia, but aside from the whole traditional aspect of it, there really is no need for them.
TV is still a relevant source of gaining news and information, but in a society with the attitude of “I want what I want NOW”, the scheduled 7:00am and 6:00pm News may not be enough for some. The usefulness of these ‘older’ technologies is becoming evidently less because of the convenience and quickness of the internet. That being said, TV still has many more uses, such as watching movies, seeing your favourite show, watching sport, or just wasting time in general, but even these activities can be easily done while using the internet. You can watch your favourite TV shows online if you want to, watch movies (albeit, illegally in some cases), or even see the replays from last nights footy match. The main down side, however, is that they can take a while to load (depending on how fast your internet connection is). Over all, these older technologies are becoming more useless as the years go by and newer technologies emerge, but we will probably maintain them for a few more years, if only because of the nostalgia value.
TV and Newspapers have been the way of keeping up with the worlds events for many many years. Is it fair to say though that with the rise of new technology such as Internet, Mobile computing, online blogs and Twitter etc. are eradicating the ways of the older technology such as the popular Newspaper which has been used for hundreds of years? I honestly believe that it will not get rid of the older ways of getting the news but would create an easy accessible way to find out what you need to know in your own time. If you hold a survey about the preferable ways of getting the news, I would say that most people would prefer watching the news on TV over using some of the new technology ways.
so its a well known fact that new technology like iphones, the internet and social websites like twitter, myspace and facebook are making old technology slowly become obselete and one day may even take over from these older technologies completly. But why, you ask and how will this effect them, the technology is overcoming and passing on information that newspapers and tv shows will never be able to do.We all know that newspapers take time to go to print,cost a lot to produce and the information only lasts a day. TV shows are the same in this way because yes they are more interactive with the viewer and the viewer only has to watch and listen instead of read them. I was reading an interview with Frank Ahrens from the Washington Post and Russ Wilcox, cheif executive of E.Ink corp., and Frank Ahrens asked Russ Wilcox how far we are from carrying around digital newspapers that have been seen in alot of "sci-fi" movies inparticular dreamworks Minority Report, the newspapers seen were interactive and constantly changing Mr. Wilcox said that he would predict the interactive internet enabled touch screen newspapers to be used by 2015, saying that alot of peices of technology that they would use to put theses new digital newspapers together have already been invented and can be used by the general public.Now I know what your thinking, the cost it has too be pretty pricey to by a digital nespaper, but no its not, the Washington post averages that they spending $150 per year per reader on making the paper. (Figuring in cost of newsprint.) Within 2 or 3 years you've built up $300 to $500 of budget per reader so you can give it away for free because the device itself will cost less than $300. I'm assuming the paper (such as The Post) will buy 700,000 of these and plunk them down. And they need a lot less capital from Wall Street so their return on equity will go up. When these new types of technology start to be used and distributed the news shows and newspapers will, like the new digital newspapers, need to be upgraded or will become obselete.
There are many reasons why these 'old' technologies,such as newspapers, TVs, magazines, letters and telephones, are slowly getting unpopular. This is because the computer and internet is better to get information and entertainment. Also computers are almost everywhere in homes, offices, libraries etc. There are also laptops, cell phones and IPhones where you can access the internet to search the information you need anywhere and anytime. Firstly, getting information is faster to get on the internet than going out to buy a newspaper or wait for a certain time for a program to come out on the TV. Secondly, people like teenagers likes to look for gossip or information for their homework. Thirdly, buying magazines or newspapers is a waste of money to most people because you can get the information, news or gossip free on the internet like ABC News, CNN, and Yahoo. Fourthly, it is easier to send messages on email than by real mail because you will have to pay to send it and it takes some time for it to reach its destination and takes time to get an answer back. However, there is always a good side in everything. By not buying newspapers everyday, you can save many trees and time from printing.
The technology that is advancing in our world today is affecting the way people in our world check news and mail today. Mobile phones and electronic devices are coming the primary source of technology.
Television as we know it presents the news to use in a form of video, you could say technology is making users more slack by using electronic devices instead of watching tv. The world is showing that news and television is heading towards electronic devices.
The problem is that technology and internet is getting better which is causing people to redirect themselves towards it, it's giving users easier access to what they want and is much easier than sitting down and watching tv. Eventually there would be more than half the world using technology such as a mobile phone or portable device instead of watching something old fassioned like a television.
Overall technology is advancing and people are turning away from old fassioned ways of checking news and other content.
Information publication Now that the Internet has become/becoming "Need" no one wants to use magazines or read the newspaper. What the point when you can just search what you want to find in Google and BAM! There it is! Even if you don't know what to search most websites like MSN or even Yahoo have updated news on the homepage everyday! Really there is no point in using old methods such as newspapers or magazines when we have the news basically at our finger tips! (The power, it is over whelming!) Also using the Internet for our information and not newspapers or magazines also helps save the environment. We wont be cutting down trees for the paper that is needed to make these newspapers and magazines. I do believe though that people will still use the T.V and Radio for there main source of information for many years to come. Magazines will still be popular because you cant really find magazines such as Topgear, Eon or even the new World Of Warcraft magazine online, you have to buy them from your local newsagent or subscribe for them online (Yet again using the Internet).
Although we use the internet a lot (And i mean A LOT) Old methods of finding information are still needed! Maybe not in 10 or 20 years but for now we still need them. Same with Tv, that will be around for ages to come. But beware The internet is taking over!!
Back when there were only newspapers and black and white TV, (when the internet wasnt invented), they were the most reliable and easy to get information about what is going on in the world. Nowadays The internet is the main source for information, becuase of its easy access and it is easy to use. The newpapers are still used today and will most likely always be made in the future. This is becuase the internet cannot be accessed from every part of the world, unless accessed by satellites or moblie phones. The Television has evolved over the past years, such as turning from black and white to colour. The TV was, and still is being turned into the most popular information source. Almost every house has one of them, and is always being watched 24/7 by different people around the world. All that has really happened is that the newspapar has merged into the TV technology. It has become a softcopy from a hardcopy. This makes it faster and easier to use, anywhere at any time. So the internet is now the most popular and reliable information source.
In olden days people always used to look forward for radio and newspaper till the television which was very popular and now the everyone are into the latest technology.
As people getting more and more computer knowledge, and with the latest technology people are more comfortable with searching information from the internet. And as same goes for mobiles, people used to use letters for communication but now people use mobiles for sending message which is faster and easier to be received much more quickly than the olden day’s trend of communication. As the time goes on when we move ahead the newspaper may become history as every one would prefer reading the news from the internet, as the news keeps updating for the minute rather than people waiting in the morning to read the newspaper.
People who live away from home would also like to talk to one another on camera live.There are certain people who just wouldn’t want to change for any technology they would always like to use the good old ways of reading the news paper and writing letters as modest of communication.
As all information is readily available people would like to take the short way to get a quick answers for all their questions. Technology is advancing and people are turning away from the old form of technology of checking news and other contents.
Newspaper and TV have been around for many, many years and now there is so many new ways that u can watch TV and read the news from all the new technologies. All these new ways are a lot more convenient because you can read the news on your mobile phones anywhere you are instead of having to go buy the newspaper from the shops. Even though there are so many more convenient ways of doing things these days I think there will still be lots of people that will use the ‘traditional’ ways of watching TV and reading the news paper because it is what they are use to. Sure, most people will use the new technologies but I still think the ‘older’ technologies will get used.
TV and internet are taking over the world boiiii.... honestly TV and internet has made "information collecting" such an easy thing to do now, instead of getting a sore eye from reading newspaper you can now simply turn on the TV and have the on AIR news to report to you what's happening lately. even if you missed the show, easy, just hop on to the internet and baaam there you go, the news will be presented to you infront of your eyes in just a few click. But no matter how convenience, how fast how good and how advance it is. i suppose there is still a generation of people there who just seem to love getting through all the troubles to get a newspaper, sit down with a cup of tea and hold the paper in their hand and read while enjoying their time of relaxation. technology can never fully replace everything, but let just leave both to co-op with each other nice and easy for the time to come yeah?
as people have said before that tv has been around for years then came along the internet. and that made it a hole lot easier for people to catch up with the latest news and events and up coming events. but with the ever changing technology soon it will be even easier for people to things like read the newspaper. in the future the newspapers will probably exist people might be able just go and buy something hand held or you could even get the newspaper as a tab on your phone or even the i phone. so in the future the newspaper will be gone and everything will be become easier. and more people will be come lazier and more an more un healthy. so i say that the newspaper should stay around so then it gets people of there but and go out and get the paper instead of just site down on there computers and not go out and socialize
all of these newer types of technologies that have come out nowadays, are shadowing the older products. each day newer and newer things are coming out which is creating constant change in the technological market, which is good for us, because we need to constantly change our actions to grow in knowledge and learn new, different and exciting things. to think that each generation that has gone by, has left us with something so memorable, first there was the light bulb, and the telephone, and the television, and now people have used to ideas and things that people had invented and made it more accesible, and they have created them to be more fun too. things like the telephone, and the newspaper, will most likely phase out as seperate inventions but rather be used as addons with other new inventions. we as humans are adapting to newer ideas which is why we are advancing, which is a good thing for us as to become smarter, we need to grow.
When television was first introduced to the public, it was an expensive and non-essential technology. However, as production became more rampant and prices dropped, within two decades at the maximum, almost every household in every western country included a television. This had a direct effect on the sales of newspapers instantly, as news shows began to be aired. Who would bother reading when someone could tell the story, broadcast straight to your living room? The same effect is likely to occur with the introduction and monopolisation of new technologies; slowly television will become more controllable and it won’t be a matter of what is on at a specific time as internet connectivity will allow a user to watch anything at any given time. Newspapers will be phased out slowly too, with the only thing holding them in their place being tradition and cultural value. It is quite possible that mobile computing will take the place of a newspaper, though the concept of a newspaper may not be dropped straight away. For example, a newspaper (as it would appear on actual paper) may be downloaded by a mobile device for reading on the go, saving on paper and making things more efficient. As the internet expands exponentially, more information becomes available. Things which are static such as newspapers, and television which is broadcast in sequence, become unneeded as there will be more efficient, more useful technologies as alternatives. Overall, the concepts of television and newspapers will probably not change any time soon. There will be online newspapers, displayed in a similar fashion to physical ones, and channels will be prevalent for a long time yet, as companies usually charge for the option to watch commercial programs at a whim.
ReplyDeleteSince the introduction of television in the 1930's, it replaced the newspaper and other related print media almost immediately. While the newspaper is still available today, it was phased out as a less popular form of communication and replaced with a media that can families/individuals can watch from the comfort of their own family living room. However, with the recent advancements, it is more and more likely than technologies such a television will be replaced and the newspaper, totally, phased out and will merely become parts of stories older generations tell to younger generations.
ReplyDeleteWith internet connections available from just about any location (depending on reception) it is more likely that the internet which provide more means of communication than both newspapers and televsions combined, will be become more popular, as individuals can watch television, check e-mails, chat with friends and read on-line newspapers articles, all that the finger's tips of the individual. In all honesty, it encourages societies demand for instant gratification and have everything when the individuals demands it.
However advancements such as these are more likely to have a more environmental-friendly approach than society has now. If technologies were able to be hand-held devices that were able to connect to interent and downloaded items or televison show that the users need/want, than the demand for printing newspapers would simply disappear. Therefore the demand of for cutting down trees decrease and the environmentist is happy. =].
As society is already, individuals can locate news articles over the internet without having to purchase an actual copy of 'The West Australian' or 'The Australian'.
The concept of having a newspaper and television on a hand-held is not-as-far fetched as people imagine it to be and will it might take ages, the chances of newspapers and televisions becoming an obsolete form of communication or technology is still pretty high.
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ReplyDeleteAs each day goes past and the future becomes the present, I believe that the traditional news sources such newspapers and tv shows are getting slowly phased out due to society's preference of online and alternative news media.
ReplyDeleteFor example, when I used to live in singapore. My dad would get the paper "The Straits Time" delivered daily to our place under a subscription. However, moving to Australia and I realised that that hasn't changed much either as my dad now reads "The Straits Times" at its online website. the paper is not important, its the news that it broadcasts.
I believe that traditional news sources are long outdated and unreliable. Let's imagine that the internet didn't exist at the moment and each day, to catch the news we would have to dash home by 6pm every night just to make sure that we are up-to-date on the current affairs of the days. What if we wake up on a rainy day one morning and find that our daily paper has been drenched through and through and utterly unledgible? this are just hypothesis however, the inconvenience of such mediums can be blatantly construed by such incidents.
The internet however can be accessed at time, it does not constrained its user. It doesn't matter anymore if we are too rushed in the morning to read the paper, we can do it on our phones whilst on the bus or train or at work etc. so what if we miss the 6pm news? the internet will allow for hourly news update to be availiable to us on our computers and mobiles.
mobile computing and the internet is shaping the way that people access news media in the future. it is reliable, updated frequently and availiable anytime, anywhere. the future will be the destruction of the limitations that have constrained us in history.
well obviously, these new technologies shall eventually phase out these older, more mundane ones. Reading the newspaper shall be done on small, hand held devices which also can be used to read books. librarys will become a thing of the past, instead being replaced with public internet cafe's as why would anyone go out to read a book when you could just download the book onto a hand held device and read it from there. TV's shall remain for many years to come as they are free to watch unlike streaming over the internet which eats up your download usage. how ever if we ever get past capping our usage, TV's may as well fade into the back ground as you have a huge variety of stations from all over the world whilst tv's are limited to local only stations.
ReplyDeletePeople used to get their information from the TV and a newspaper for years but all of that’s changing now with the internet. Information is just as easily available on the internet when you open most search engines or ISP home pages then you are most likely going to see the latest news. When you open msn it comes up with msn today showing us the latest in entertainment, sport and normal news. So the news is in our face everywhere
ReplyDeleteTelevisions use will not end until they and computers are the same thing because people are more likely to sit on a couch and watch the news on TV the flick around on the internet unless they are looking to learn about something specific.
In the future news will become more and more accessible on the move, already you can have the news text to your phone or you can use your phones internet connection to find out the latest information. Before we know it we will be able to go onto our phones and watch TV streamed to our phone, some phones this is already available.
Newspapers will soon be phased out I believe as the information is easy to get and readily available but news papers are still handy as you are not staring at a screen and all the latest information you would want to know is already there. But the internet is updated as quickly as information is found out.
well... older tech like news papers and stuff will never be replaced by stuff like the net and mobile computing. News papers dont only involve news. in the sunday times for instance it contains news, sport, real estate and many more. we also have local news papers/community newspapers and the information and articles will only be relevant to tht community. im sure if news papers were to be replaced with internet and high tech gadgets it will replace routines and hobbies/habits of many people. There are a majority of people that cant handle lookin at a screen for so long periods of time. there will be large amount of people who will start to get eyes dissabilites and problems from focussin on a screen for so long. especially how news papers like sunday times and western australia roughly about 400pages of a A3 page. it is so funn reading through news papers instead of clickin and waiting to load for the next page on the internet or on a phone. we have a large amount of recycled products that are goin to waste and by not producin news papers anymore this will drastically increase the amount of recycled products that news papers are made from. There r alot of recycled factory/companies (paper production) that are run by dissabled ppl. if we dont dont have news papers these poor dissabled ppl wont have any shops. bye bye:)
ReplyDeletewithout news papers old old old ppl will be lonely. instead of givin old ppl news papers at nursin homes they will end up with NOTHING!! lonely ppl they will will be. so cut down more trees and make news papers. usin computers tht conserve lots and lots of energy/electricity that comes from burnin coal which will have a worse affect on the environment. Wat is ur choice would u rather an environment tht is soo hot becos the hole in the ozone layer has grown from the amount of pollutants we produce from from burnin fossil fuels. or would u rather an environment tht u just have to plant more trees.......... its ur choice. bye
The internet is going to have a big affect on the newspaper and TV shows because it is a lot easier to view and get to. You don’t need to go out to the shops to buy a newspaper you can just go on your home computer and go on the news pages. There are many different types of news websites on the internet such as Google news, Yahoo7, nine MSN, ABC news and the list goes on and on. On most of these sites you can just type on a key word and it will come up with loads of different news articles. With the TV news and Newspaper you have to check or wait for a specific article/story on what you may be interested in but with the internet you can type in what you are looking for.
ReplyDeleteThe same is for mobile computing you can look at news on the go. So if you are out and about you can get out you mobile and have a look at what’s happening around the world or even locally.
Soon I think the newspaper well be EXTINCT! Because it will have been taken over by the internet news. The TV and newspaper are slowly decreasing in popularity because many youths want there news to be quick and easy!
The affect of the current new generation of technologies is making the old generation like news papers and TV shows obsolete. The news paper could now be viewed online with the benefit of being able to only view the articles of your choice and you don’t have to carry around the excess baggage when you’re on the run. If you are watching a full on TV broadcast of the news and just want the sporting news or highlights would be a thing of the past, the news companies could create segments for each of the certain stories like one for sport, the plane crash in the US, the massive firework factory blaze and more for each certain story.
ReplyDeleteWhen each person wants to cut out something involved in receiving the news, the technology is there. Don’t like getting down to the service station, get it on your pc. You can’t have the paper with as it is to bulky, use your iPod Touch. To bored of watching the full news story, watch a snapshot. To little time to read the newspaper or watch the news, watch what you want, when you want. This “upgrade”, there will be no waiting for the latest news. What about hope for the people who are not technologically “savvy”, well by the time that this “upgrade is done” everyone will be able to find the news online. So all the news programs will become obsolete to the faster, more select and more electronic news delivery system.
Theres always a negative to a positive idea. As new technological ideas continue to expand, older ideas seize and become 'out-dated'. Television and newspapers are slowly decreasing in popularity due to the popularity increase of newer, more advanced news sources such as the iphone, internet etc. Making information public was difficult prior to the invention of youtube, twitter, blogs and many other internet communication systems. The effect that this is having on paper companies and television news studios is huge and really big. The newspaper company has to purchase paper and ink from their business, however with the increase of internet users the availability of the news reports has increased accordingly. Therefore, the production of these newer technologies are affecting many industries. My opinion is, keep making these things but not to the point where we dont do anything. Thats my answer.
ReplyDeleteNewer technology will obviously always have an effect on older technologies by making older technologies obsolete and therefore inconvenient in the world in which it now finds itself. The newer technologies that are constantly being introduced do not only redesign older products but constantly introduce new themes and concepts to the market making it the by far the most favourable choice of the modern generation.
ReplyDeleteThe newspaper and TV shows have been completely matched and possibly ousted (depending on your point of view) by the host of sites offered to anyone with an internet connection. Videos and Articles are both being copied onto the internet for absolutely free use, they are available at any time that it is wanted and take up absolutely no physical space. This means that anybody that has access to the internet does not have to schedule their lives around the airing and producing of the news and media; for instance a businessman does not have to rush home from work to catch the 6 o'clock news on channel 7 but can instead come home when he wishes and go onto the 7/Yahoo and read the news articles and and watch only the news video's that he wants to. Because of this simply more convenient and more efficient way of transmitting the news younger generations are choosing this form of news.
Mobile Computing is a simply the convenient choice for anyone that travels constantly or or has no internet at their place/s of work. It allows the previously mentioned websites that are in place for news purposes (Yahoo7, ninemsn News, CNN.com, etc) to access the news that they want at anytime that they choose. This makes it the obvious choice the people that are ready to embrace this sort of technology.
Other technologies that have no predecessors are another further choice that people are switching to the internet for is the internet giants of Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They provide not only community based knowledge but also allow people to communicate with friends and share anything that they feel necessary.
All of these reasons and examples clearly show why the internet is the logical choice over the restrictive and inconvenient relics that are the newspapers and news programs.
Yes, it’s true that our main source of news for many years has been (and still is) mainly from the daily newspapers and news TV shows. However now days a big shift form news outlets (older news outlets) have expanded to new means of news outlets such as formal publications (online news websites, blogs, Youtube videos, mobile news) and less formal publications (self blogs, wikis and twitter). These new means of technologies have and continue to impact the older news outlets.
ReplyDeleteSo why are many loyal customers who read the newspaper switching to newer means of technology for their daily news? Well there are several reasons why, firstly for a typical daily newspaper it would cost around $2-$3 but with online news it’s free (except for the connection fee). Secondly online news offers more news because it can websites can upload more news articles, where as newspapers can only be a certain thickness. Thirdly the electronic news offers special sections such as ‘breaking news’ as it happens so you as the reader will find out about the recent events as they happen, you don’t have to wait a whole day for the news to be printed. Fourthly the world is becoming more environmentally friendly, the greener the better is how the majority of our society works right now, if newspapers were eradicated the amount of trees that would be saved would be a lot. Also the printing companies and recycling companies would save a lot of power, which in turn would save the pollutants of the energy used.
These reasons are all positive therefore driving the shift from the old technology to the new technology means. Newspapers and TV shows would be impacted the most because they would see a big decrease of listeners and audiences. Such as how many of us what answers straight away? ALL OF US! How ever back in the day we would have to wait a long time till the news would flash on the weather forecast, which at time would be too fast to register. So instead a person would go online, type in weather in Google then BAM! Its right there, no waiting around.
We as a society can expect many newspaper companies to shift to the online news technology for it’s main outsourcing of spreading news, we could still expect small amounts of newspapers to be printed except the concept of reading a paper would be considered ‘old school’ instead we can expect many people switching from the soft white and black paper to the small useful laptop or mobile phone. TV however I think would be effected but not so much because it’s a way of life for people to sit down and watch the news. People work all day then get home cook and watch the news for all the latest.
To me I think this shift has too many positives that heavily outweighs the negatives therefore it’s a great technological move that will benefit our world in many ways
slowly we will find that buying newspapers and magazines are old, esp if you are looking at them for gossip or information.
ReplyDeleteteenagers these days find that, searching celebs daily news, information for health tips or school work, internet is the helpful and easy one. slowly you find that teenagers no longer buy mags or newspapers but our parents still do. but when we become older, do you think we might continue buying or will we might find them a waste of money when we can just see these information free online..
there are sites online that provide information so us viewers can be informed, but they are not thinking about the outcome in our future..
we are starting to depend on technology for communication, so what about the phone?
speaking about the net, we don't find peoples using email to communicate, we use facebook, msn, myspace etc. and slowly these "old" use of "old" days are slowly going to die. new generations comes in, growing with the technology and because of the mental growth for young by technology, printing information is going to be old school. soon you might find that primary schools or high schools, using technology to inform each other or use at class for everyday learning. Not even that, some schools are already using laptops in class. and that shows how fast technology has taken over.
it can be a good and a bad thing but .. technology is going to be a quick, fast movement which takes over half of our support on earth. I reckon we depend too much on technology, not using our brains or the prints provided for us.
There are a few reasons why techmology is trying to take out things like a good morning paper and TV, But in a personal note, I'd rather take a newspaper whereever and have actual reading expeirince while keeping up with news than wait to get home from working on a computer from Nine to Five and come home to another computer to further irritate me or read news news on the bus with teeny-weey-eyestrain-o-vision. However, I can't keep trying to ignore the giant that is internet news and it's sprogs of blog pages and portable computers. Soon the world will become dependant on computers, not a person without a laptop just at the time they can talk and walk. food, costs, bills and other essentials will all become machine used by some degree. Soon the need to think becomes a misnoma and the want for some self learing expeirence and purpose on this world would became a laughable term. I'd be worried if man turns to technology for every human need, someone wrong is bound to happen. So yeah, fast accesible information about the world, and the loss of the need of verbal communication. Hoo-rah. And FYI, if this does actually happen, I'd like you all to remember that a called it.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to find anything out, whether it be news on the latest catastrophe, who won the Derby last Saturday, or even what the weather will be tomorrow, the internet has it all. Not only is it a very quick and reliable way to find the information you need, but it also does not require thousands of trees to be cut down for paper production like newspapers do. Newspapers are quickly becoming redundant, if only for the sheer amount of information you can easily find on the internet, and the convenience in which you can do so. Sure, some people may still like to have the newspaper around (after all, we need something to read while in the dunny don’t we), and it does give us a feeling of nostalgia, but aside from the whole traditional aspect of it, there really is no need for them.
ReplyDeleteTV is still a relevant source of gaining news and information, but in a society with the attitude of “I want what I want NOW”, the scheduled 7:00am and 6:00pm News may not be enough for some. The usefulness of these ‘older’ technologies is becoming evidently less because of the convenience and quickness of the internet. That being said, TV still has many more uses, such as watching movies, seeing your favourite show, watching sport, or just wasting time in general, but even these activities can be easily done while using the internet. You can watch your favourite TV shows online if you want to, watch movies (albeit, illegally in some cases), or even see the replays from last nights footy match. The main down side, however, is that they can take a while to load (depending on how fast your internet connection is). Over all, these older technologies are becoming more useless as the years go by and newer technologies emerge, but we will probably maintain them for a few more years, if only because of the nostalgia value.
TV and Newspapers have been the way of keeping up with the worlds events for many many years. Is it fair to say though that with the rise of new technology such as Internet, Mobile computing, online blogs and Twitter etc. are eradicating the ways of the older technology such as the popular Newspaper which has been used for hundreds of years? I honestly believe that it will not get rid of the older ways of getting the news but would create an easy accessible way to find out what you need to know in your own time. If you hold a survey about the preferable ways of getting the news, I would say that most people would prefer watching the news on TV over using some of the new technology ways.
ReplyDeleteso its a well known fact that new technology like iphones, the internet and social websites like twitter, myspace and facebook are making old technology slowly become obselete and one day may even take over from these older technologies completly. But why, you ask and how will this effect them, the technology is overcoming and passing on information that newspapers and tv shows will never be able to do.We all know that newspapers take time to go to print,cost a lot to produce and the information only lasts a day. TV shows are the same in this way because yes they are more interactive with the viewer and the viewer only has to watch and listen instead of read them. I was reading an interview with Frank Ahrens from the Washington Post and Russ Wilcox, cheif executive of E.Ink corp., and Frank Ahrens asked Russ Wilcox how far we are from carrying around digital newspapers that have been seen in alot of "sci-fi" movies inparticular dreamworks Minority Report, the newspapers seen were interactive and constantly changing Mr. Wilcox said that he would predict the interactive internet enabled touch screen newspapers to be used by 2015, saying that alot of peices of technology that they would use to put theses new digital newspapers together have already been invented and can be used by the general public.Now I know what your thinking, the cost it has too be pretty pricey to by a digital nespaper, but no its not, the Washington post averages that they spending $150 per year per reader on making the paper. (Figuring in cost of newsprint.) Within 2 or 3 years you've built up $300 to $500 of budget per reader so you can give it away for free because the device itself will cost less than $300. I'm assuming the paper (such as The Post) will buy 700,000 of these and plunk them down. And they need a lot less capital from Wall Street so their return on equity will go up. When these new types of technology start to be used and distributed the news shows and newspapers will, like the new digital newspapers, need to be upgraded or will become obselete.
ReplyDeleteThere are many reasons why these 'old' technologies,such as newspapers, TVs, magazines, letters and telephones, are slowly getting unpopular. This is because the computer and internet is better to get information and entertainment. Also computers are almost everywhere in homes, offices, libraries etc. There are also laptops, cell phones and IPhones where you can access the internet to search the information you need anywhere and anytime. Firstly, getting information is faster to get on the internet than going out to buy a newspaper or wait for a certain time for a program to come out on the TV. Secondly, people like teenagers likes to look for gossip or information for their homework. Thirdly, buying magazines or newspapers is a waste of money to most people because you can get the information, news or gossip free on the internet like ABC News, CNN, and Yahoo. Fourthly, it is easier to send messages on email than by real mail because you will have to pay to send it and it takes some time for it to reach its destination and takes time to get an answer back. However, there is always a good side in everything. By not buying newspapers everyday, you can save many trees and time from printing.
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ReplyDeleteThe technology that is advancing in our world today is affecting the way people in our world check news and mail today. Mobile phones and electronic devices are coming the primary source of technology.
ReplyDeleteTelevision as we know it presents the news to use in a form of video, you could say technology is making users more slack by using electronic devices instead of watching tv. The world is showing that news and television is heading towards electronic devices.
The problem is that technology and internet is getting better which is causing people to redirect themselves towards it, it's giving users easier access to what they want and is much easier than sitting down and watching tv. Eventually there would be more than half the world using technology such as a mobile phone or portable device instead of watching something old fassioned like a television.
Overall technology is advancing and people are turning away from old fassioned ways of checking news and other content.
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ReplyDeleteNow that the Internet has become/becoming "Need" no one wants to use magazines or read the newspaper. What the point when you can just search what you want to find in Google and BAM! There it is! Even if you don't know what to search most websites like MSN or even Yahoo have updated news on the homepage everyday! Really there is no point in using old methods such as newspapers or magazines when we have the news basically at our finger tips! (The power, it is over whelming!) Also using the Internet for our information and not newspapers or magazines also helps save the environment. We wont be cutting down trees for the paper that is needed to make these newspapers and magazines. I do believe though that people will still use the T.V and Radio for there main source of information for many years to come. Magazines will still be popular because you cant really find magazines such as Topgear, Eon or even the new World Of Warcraft magazine online, you have to buy them from your local newsagent or subscribe for them online (Yet again using the Internet).
Although we use the internet a lot (And i mean A LOT) Old methods of finding information are still needed! Maybe not in 10 or 20 years but for now we still need them. Same with Tv, that will be around for ages to come.
But beware The internet is taking over!!
Back when there were only newspapers and black and white TV, (when the internet wasnt invented), they were the most reliable and easy to get information about what is going on in the world. Nowadays The internet is the main source for information, becuase of its easy access and it is easy to use. The newpapers are still used today and will most likely always be made in the future. This is becuase the internet cannot be accessed from every part of the world, unless accessed by satellites or moblie phones. The Television has evolved over the past years, such as turning from black and white to colour. The TV was, and still is being turned into the most popular information source. Almost every house has one of them, and is always being watched 24/7 by different people around the world. All that has really happened is that the newspapar has merged into the TV technology. It has become a softcopy from a hardcopy. This makes it faster and easier to use, anywhere at any time. So the internet is now the most popular and reliable information source.
ReplyDeleteIn olden days people always used to look forward for radio and newspaper till the television which was very popular and now the everyone are into the latest technology.
ReplyDeleteAs people getting more and more computer knowledge, and with the latest technology people are more comfortable with searching information from the internet. And as same goes for mobiles, people used to use letters for communication but now people use mobiles for sending message which is faster and easier to be received much more quickly than the olden day’s trend of communication. As the time goes on when we move ahead the newspaper may become history as every one would prefer reading the news from the internet, as the news keeps updating for the minute rather than people waiting in the morning to read the newspaper.
People who live away from home would also like to talk to one another on camera live.There are certain people who just wouldn’t want to change for any technology they would always like to use the good old ways of reading the news paper and writing letters as modest of communication.
As all information is readily available people would like to take the short way to get a quick answers for all their questions. Technology is advancing and people are turning away from the old form of technology of checking news and other contents.
Newspaper and TV have been around for many, many years and now there is so many new ways that u can watch TV and read the news from all the new technologies. All these new ways are a lot more convenient because you can read the news on your mobile phones anywhere you are instead of having to go buy the newspaper from the shops. Even though there are so many more convenient ways of doing things these days I think there will still be lots of people that will use the ‘traditional’ ways of watching TV and reading the news paper because it is what they are use to. Sure, most people will use the new technologies but I still think the ‘older’ technologies will get used.
ReplyDeleteTV and internet are taking over the world boiiii.... honestly TV and internet has made "information collecting" such an easy thing to do now, instead of getting a sore eye from reading newspaper you can now simply turn on the TV and have the on AIR news to report to you what's happening lately. even if you missed the show, easy, just hop on to the internet and baaam there you go, the news will be presented to you infront of your eyes in just a few click.
ReplyDeleteBut no matter how convenience, how fast how good and how advance it is. i suppose there is still a generation of people there who just seem to love getting through all the troubles to get a newspaper, sit down with a cup of tea and hold the paper in their hand and read while enjoying their time of relaxation.
technology can never fully replace everything, but let just leave both to co-op with each other nice and easy for the time to come yeah?
as people have said before that tv has been around for years then came along the internet. and that made it a hole lot easier for people to catch up with the latest news and events and up coming events.
ReplyDeletebut with the ever changing technology soon it will be even easier for people to things like read the newspaper. in the future the newspapers will probably exist people might be able just go and buy something hand held or you could even get the newspaper as a tab on your phone or even the i phone.
so in the future the newspaper will be gone and everything will be become easier. and more people will be come lazier and more an more un healthy. so i say that the newspaper should stay around so then it gets people of there but and go out and get the paper instead of just site down on there computers and not go out and socialize
all of these newer types of technologies that have come out nowadays, are shadowing the older products. each day newer and newer things are coming out which is creating constant change in the technological market, which is good for us, because we need to constantly change our actions to grow in knowledge and learn new, different and exciting things. to think that each generation that has gone by, has left us with something so memorable, first there was the light bulb, and the telephone, and the television, and now people have used to ideas and things that people had invented and made it more accesible, and they have created them to be more fun too. things like the telephone, and the newspaper, will most likely phase out as seperate inventions but rather be used as addons with other new inventions. we as humans are adapting to newer ideas which is why we are advancing, which is a good thing for us as to become smarter, we need to grow.
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