The Future of Communication

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Comment by Michael Josefowicz on December 10, 2008 at 11:02am

I'm thiking that if we had projects that asked something like: What do you want to improve in your school's or community life? Then "How would you use Print to do that? Then organize them into teams to execute a prototype? They get to see how amazing Print is to change behavior...and get totally pysched by making a real change in the real world...Plus there is no doubt in my mind that they will come up with ideas that no printer is going to think about..

Comment by Brian Regan on December 10, 2008 at 10:58am

Perhaps the students should be tapped for how they view the future if the current company leaderships are bogged down with the day to day operations.

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Comment by Michael Josefowicz on December 10, 2008 at 10:54am

So....if the real problem is new business models..and the printers are too busy staying alive and trapped by the way they've always seen the world...then wouldn't it be cool if the schools became centers of innovative business models? We've got the new ways of looking at the world from our students + we have the time and experience to think about it...plus anybody who is teaching Print still loves it. Sounds like a perfect storm to me..
Any thoughts?

Comment by Michael Josefowicz on December 10, 2008 at 10:46am

Brian-
It might be just me, but I couldn't get the Stewart video to play...I'll try to get to Comedy Central and see if I can get it from there...

Comment by Brian Regan on December 10, 2008 at 10:43am

I agree that print is clearly going to remain.

Comment by Michael Josefowicz on December 10, 2008 at 10:38am

The thing is that like most technologists, they are totally blind to the power of Print. They are the leaders of the "book is dead" crowd, which is obviously wrong. Meanwhile, I think that alot of time, us, Print Technologists :) , are cowed by the shiny toys and all the buzz. Print has been around for 500 years. It ain't going away any time real soon. The trick is the business models, not the technology.

On the other hand, I think they have it right about rethinking copyright. But from our point of view that's great news. All that content being aggregated on the web, just waiting to be freed from the internet into Print!

Ah...the future's so bright, I have to wear shades.

Comment by Brian Regan on December 10, 2008 at 10:29am

Thought this video was appropriate to the assumptions of the video .

Comment by Brian Regan on December 10, 2008 at 10:28am

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Comment by Brian Regan on December 10, 2008 at 10:25am

Wow... that was very well done. Some things are unlikely, but wow.