I found the little quote below very revealing of the strong inertia we tend to have when it comes to handle new technologies. A (brilliant) fifty something sports-writer who started his career in paper writes the following despite the fact his articles are now only published on a dot-com website:

“Do not worry about any hysterical dot-com reports” […] Link

His value system is still built around something that was true a few years ago, when paper was the only source of credible information, and information’s credibility was first and foremost identifiable by the container it was in.

Today it’s not anymore about the way you transport information; it is about who is creating it in the first place. We put the same level of trust in a New York Times article, whether we read in on paper or on an iphone.

Credibility has moved out of supports. It is exclusively in the source now. And reports can be hysterical on any support. Call that progress.

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