The evolution of where people source news
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May 18, 2009 
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This is an interesting post from www.Baekdal.com, not least because of the interesting visualisation which tries to examine how and where people have and will get information / news in the future.
Visualisation of news sources over time (with permission www.baekdal.com)
It’s an fascinating visualisation, I’m not sure I agree with everything on there (or the use of a variable timescale), but there are some good ideas and things to discuss, such as the suggestion that social networks will provide less “news” in the future and that “social news” (news straight from the people who make it) will rise in importance.
Looks suspiciously like a vision for the future of information where there is no information left. Whether it will turn out to be accurate or not I don’t know but I think that (perhaps contrary to popular opinion) it paints a dystopian picture of the future overall.