The Future

While doing my research I came across a new idea that I would like to look more into. So I decided to change my area of focus from censorship in the media, to the future of the media.

Not just with the media, but pretty much all future is unknown. Looking back a few years when all we had was the newspaper it is clear that we have come a really long way. Furthermore, with all the technological advancements we have now, there is no telling where the media will be in the next ten years.

If technology was the only determining factor then maybe we would be able to make some reasonably well calculated estimations. But we also have to consider the answers to several questions like :

* What is the effect of the new media to the traditional media?

* What will happen to citizen media? will it grow to be as big as traditional media? or will it take over?

* What about the print media? what happens to it after everything moves to the internet?

MOCOM2020 is a project jointly created and managed by Simyo and other organisation that is working on predicting the future of the media. What they have so far is just mind blowing. Checkout the video : Here (I found it very creepy yet interesting, it holds your attention all through! Seriously! )

Through this research I hope to find out what people see the future of the media to be. So if any of you can find time and comment on this post what your ideas and opinions are of the future of the media, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance :)