Hannibals predictions come true

Not that Hannibal but Andreas Kluth who recalls the article that he wrote for the Economist back in 2006 where he tried to envision the future of the media.

As he recalls

As part of my Special Report, I did our (The Economist’s) very first podcasts,I heard the word “YouTube” for the first time and I had never heard of Facebook (not to mention Twitter).

But it is his media habits that are most interesting in the three years since the report.Once having many subscriptions to newspapers and magazines

Today I have no paper subscription at all! I have precisely two electronic subscriptions on my Kindle, one newspaper (The New York Times) and one magazine (The Atlantic).

Now his newspaper subscriber is the RSS feeds,and lives the life that he predicted being

simultaneously the audience for other “amateur” producers of content and an amateur producer myself.

Ht-Adrian Monck