One Provocative Future of Media
In response to Open Source Journalism and Public Framing of Issues, my friend Halim sent me to a "fascinating 'future history' scenario of media evolution." Check it out. I wrote to its creator, Evan Emerson, complimenting him on his brilliant creation and -- since it is rich with provocative ambiguity -- wondering where his thinking takes him on how he'd like to see the future of media unfold. Perhaps he will show up here and share his thoughts...
posted by Tom Atlee on Thursday April 21 2005
updated on Saturday September 24 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/tom_atlee/2005/04/21/one_provocative_future_of_media.htm
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