Why Paper Loses
Bandwidth devours the newsstand
By '98, forty percent of magazine revenue migrates online. The kiosk becomes a URL.
Every reader becomes the editor
Hypertext kills forced linearity. Choose your own narrative path through every story.
Digital color costs nothing
Neon ink runs $800 per plate. A 14.4k modem renders sixteen million colors for free.
The deadline is always now
Daily print cycles cannot compete with real-time publishing measured in milliseconds.
The Network