What does the future look like?
What unfolded a decade ago that foretells of where we are? Back then the break from composite professional productions was upended by the solo maker.
In Cairo, newspapers are thriving, but a new readership prefers online.
In Beirut, one of their popular newspapers is moving online.
Remarkably, one person not only had the means, but the means in tech was rewiring attitudes to content production.
Just because you could, was the reason to do so, but is that the way forward? Where does it go next?
As a tech-media historian who’s personally documented many of these firsts in the last thirty years, this provides a glimpse of then, followed by V2 of the next phase. And those patterns of behaviour refocuse on collaboration.
Next version of the web is to exist inside…
