October 4, 2007
Dillbert: Newspapers will die out within two upgrades of a cell phone
"Dilbert" creator Scott Adams predicts that newspapers will die out within two upgrades of a cell phone. News Tracker reports.
"The iPhone, and its inevitable copycats, (let's call them iClones) are newspaper killers," he writes in the Dilbert Blog. "When you have a web browser in your pocket, a printed newspaper is redundant."
He admits that 10 years ago, he predicted newspapers would die out in five years. So maybe newspapers will last for at least four upgrades of a cell phone.
What would save newspapers? He imagines "your cell phone equipped with a built-in scroll of 'digital paper' that pulls out to the side, like a sideways Venetian blind, for reading web pages and documents."
In a nutshell, the top five reasons newspapers will survive according to the Dilbert commenters are:
1. Coupons
2. Toilets
3. Boomers
4. Subways
5. Pet waste
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