Newsstands will come back into fashion in 20 years. The government ban/corporate monopoly on wireless internet access will be in full swing by then. Wifi dampeners will be the norm, making it only possible to upload news media through prescribed home based receivers or "public" access stations like the new newsstands.
Internet accessing telephones will also be included in the ban & subject to wifi dampening, thereby necessitating some type of public access "booths" being stationed throughout cities for internet phone use.
@ Bliss_infinite: I concur, though I suspect that is now but a dream, though the magazines and news publishers are fighting heartily against the tide of change.
October 14, 2010 at 2:25 PM
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@LotGD: Thanks. I was aiming for ludicrous. Unfortunately, the sillier it sounds nowadays, the more likely it will happen.
Hi, I'd like to find out some copyright info on one of the pics you have used here as I'd really like to use it for part of a CD cover for an album based on 30s and 40s pulp era fiction. Can someone email me at promo@jiveaces.com please? Cheers, Alex
JA--I do not access to that sort of information; do a search under Old News Stands and look in google images. Good luck.--RJK
August 13, 2011 at 9:46 PM
With the retreat of printed papers and magazines as a result of the electronic medium, are we losing touch with people and community, face-to-face socializing, and supporting local businesses? And is the investment of time and effort we put into such latter endeavors creating a richer life experience or merely isolating us in front of the silent images of a computer?
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Close this window Jump to comment formNewsstands will come back into fashion in 20 years. The government ban/corporate monopoly on wireless internet access will be in full swing by then. Wifi dampeners will be the norm, making it only possible to upload news media through prescribed home based receivers or "public" access stations like the new newsstands.
Internet accessing telephones will also be included in the ban & subject to wifi dampening, thereby necessitating some type of public access "booths" being stationed throughout cities for internet phone use.
Everything new is old again!
Ciao!
GW
October 14, 2010 at 7:21 AM
@Grendelwulf - I think Cybus Industries have already taken out patents.
October 14, 2010 at 7:25 AM
Bring back the newsstand! And the pulps!
October 14, 2010 at 10:25 AM
@Gredlewulf: What you just depicted sounds so sterile and asocial, though I do not doubt the possibility of it being instituted
October 14, 2010 at 2:22 PM
@ Bliss_infinite: I concur, though I suspect that is now but a dream, though the magazines and news publishers are fighting heartily against the tide of change.
October 14, 2010 at 2:25 PM
@LotGD: Thanks. I was aiming for ludicrous. Unfortunately, the sillier it sounds nowadays, the more likely it will happen.
It's a depraved, new world.
Ciao!
GW
October 14, 2010 at 3:46 PM
Hi, I'd like to find out some copyright info on one of the pics you have used here as I'd really like to use it for part of a CD cover for an album based on 30s and 40s pulp era fiction. Can someone email me at promo@jiveaces.com please?
Cheers, Alex
July 13, 2011 at 1:54 PM
JA--I do not access to that sort of information; do a search under Old News Stands and look in google images. Good luck.--RJK
August 13, 2011 at 9:46 PM