Thursday, November 14, 2013

What comes next?

In class one day this six weeks, we discussed the Internet. A fact that has come up in many lectures about different mass media in class is that every medium seems to gain popularity fast, and then have its downfall. It happened with magazines, radio, and even television. Currently, the medium of choice is the Internet, and I have to ask myself, does it suffer the same fate? Will we eventually grow tired of it? At the moment, it seems not, as the Internet is used daily by most people and that continues to be the case. Another point to raise is that the Internet contains all other forms of media. It's possible to read books, magazines, and newspapers, you can watch television and movies, you can even download music. Because the Internet can do all of this, will it overtake even the most demassified of other media? And if not, if the Internet is to be replaced, I cannot fathom what comes next. It's very hard for me to imagine something even more modern and spectacular for media than the Internet.

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