Navigating the Digital Future

Can anything stop YouTube or MySpace or TiVo or peer-to-peer downloading or the iPod or iTunes or mobile entertainment? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Certainly not traditional media. Radio, television, print, movies, the record business -- they're stymied. Lost in old ideas and the technology they hang onto and misdirected when they embrace a new interactive one. What can put a hurt on the current runaway digital future is the interactive media itself -- all of it. My long time friend and media futurist John Parikhal recently wrote: "The biggest "missed" story was the continuing damage to productivity that is caused by e-mail. If you get&hellip