The End of Newsprint

The high inflation trend keeps on, the cost for printing is rising. Newspapers struggle to fight back against modern news media, and eventually lost the last battle. Newsprint companies will starting disappear as soon as three years from now (2009). Nearly most will be gone in ten years time. Human begin to realize the reversible damage done on the nature. Various environment protection groups gain more and more influences, and causes big challenges to paper producers. The last few traditional New print companies sees no hope and closing their doors. This is the End of Newsprint, but certainly not the end of news media. News are keep published, but in a modern way; RSS Feed, on the internet, mobile phones and via other modern portable devices with wireless connection.

“Generation Y” is the main driving force for this scenario. People from this generation are easier to make them accept and use new technology and modern devices. Under influence of this generation, the “Generation X” and “Generation Jones” (example Barack Obama) realize that learning and use of new technology is inevitable. Portable device for information storage and distribution will become a world standard. This will give a push to other industry into the next phase: example e-books , e-school.

Time Frame:

10-15 years

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display


http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-10701.html


http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/lg-philips-announces-14-3-inch-flexible-e-paper-display-for-ces/