"Seeing the Future," American Journalism Review, November 29, 2011.
Could Roger Fidler see into the future?
Thirty years ago, the journalist and new-media trailblazer envisioned the news and technology industries working together as one. The distribution and consumption of news, as Fidler saw it, would leave the printing presses behind and instead take place through futuristic reading devices.
"These devices, known as 'flat panels' or 'tablets,' will combine the readability and convenience of paper with the technological abilities of video and sound. In the same way that ink-on-paper printing has defined the present era, it now appears certain that electronic 'presses' and multimedia publishing will define the new one," Fidler wrote in an October 1992 AJR article called "What Are We So Afraid Of?"
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