The Death of Newspapers

2nd November, 2010

Australian futurist and entrepreneur Ross Dawson has gone about predicting the death of newspapers according to country, charting out his observations in the map pictured above.

His point is not just that newspapers in their current form will become, as he says, "insignificant", but exactly when this happens varies from country to country.

The extinction, Dawson asserts, will start in more developed countries, beginning with the US in 2017, followed by UK and Iceland in 2019 and Canada and Norway in 2020.

"Australia's concentrated print media ownership will push the lifespan of newsprint out by a couple of additional years to 2022, when they will also become extinct in Hong Kong, a year later than in Finland, Singapore and Greenland," according to Dawson, who predicts that newsprint will be "replaced by technologies such as lightweight, interactive digital paper that can show video, but can also be rolled and folded."

Check out and comment on Dawson's prophetic claims here:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/deadline-for-print-as-digital-rises/story-e6frg996-1225945860067