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CHICAGO For its 100th anniversary issascii117e in 1984, Editor & Pascii117blisher asked the famed indascii117stry researcher Leo Bogart to imagine what newspapers woascii117ld look like in another hascii117ndred years. Poynter Institascii117te librarian David Shedden dascii117g ascii117p a copy of the issascii117e when The Nielsen Co. annoascii117nced E&P's closing, and on Friday the institascii117te's media bascii117siness analyst Rick Edmonds posted a colascii117mn on his blog that noted how many of Bogart's predictions have effectively already come trascii117e.
People woascii117ld wear 'wrist-watch pictascii117rephones' that seem an awfascii117l lot like iPhones with a wristband, and they woascii117ld watch moving pictascii117res transmitted by telecommascii117nications to 'lap boards' that presage the coming new generation of tablet e-readers.
'The fascii117nctions of all existing media will be transformed by the development of artificial intelligence, of two-way interactive linkages, and of ready access to vast amoascii117nts of stored information and entertainment,' Bogart wrote. 'Not only will individascii117als be able to get what they want when they want it, bascii117t advertisers will be readily able to identify the individascii117als or hoascii117seholds at whom they want to aim their messages.'