The conversation in another thread got me thinking about this one<br /><br />what does the news media look like in the Frontier<br /><br />Certainly not newspapers as we remember them though an outpost or light population world might just have a local newspaper that gets circulated.<br /><br />Medium and High population worlds will be more modern and futuristic in how news is disseminated.<br /><br />Classic newspapers in the real world are discovering that their old business model needs to evolve to survive and move to a online electronic format in someway and I beleive this will be the case in the Frontier. In fact the Frontier has holo news.<br /><br />I remember one sci-fi setting where the author talked about news faxes- and I'm envisioning the news paper and print journalism evolving to fax news articles to your chronocom to keep you upto date.<br /><br />Holo news might would be more immersive and possibly interactive- allowing you to experience some of what the camera "man" experienced while he was filming- commercials will seek to stimulate the view in new ways<br /><br />How long before the news anchors have product placement with a can of coke at their elbow like some Reality gameshow judge?<br /><br />honest to goodness books wont disappear (they'll just get older and more expensive) but libraries will become electronic and experienced by VR headsets where you can sellect a Victorian looking library and browse the shelves pulling out VR books and read them before checking out that book by down loading it to your comp or chronocom. Of course that will be the death knell for the free lending library as all of that has to be paid for and they only one's using the library will be those with credits to do so.<br /><br />I think the FNN (Frontier News Network) site is still up somewhere on the web and this is a pretty good fan creation. I'd love to talk to the fan that created that sometime if he's still active in the community.
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