Future of Publishing

When I watched, The Future of Publishing, the first half reminded me of the younger generation. I watch my teenagers on their XBOX, I phones, laptops and I feel like their world revolves around technology. Teenagers have conversations about video games and it is like a foreign language. Teenagers walk around listening to their I Phones and text all the time and they don’t even talk to each other any more. I can’t remember the last time my boys went to the library or picked up a newspaper or magazine, they just Google it on a laptop or I phones. It scares me to think what direction the world is going. Are we going to be paper less? I was agreeing with the first half of the UTUBE video and thinking we probably won’t be publishing books in a few years.

When the video started playing backwards, I almost felt a sense of hope. Maybe we can focus the attention of the world on what is important again. Instead of the focus being video games, music and Hollywood maybe we can focus on education and world events even if we have to use technology to get there.

It was cool how the video had a message both ways. Maybe we can turn the world around and people can see the importance of being educated in ways, book smart and street smart!