Back in February of 2007, as old media seemed to be peddling faster and faster to stay afloat and its tone seemed to quickly become even more hysteric than usual, I asked if the media’s Red Queen’s Race had begun–and indeed it had. In Slate, Jack Shafer writes that Michael Crichton–who knows a thing or two about dinosaurs facing extinction–predicted its death rattle 15 years ago:
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In 1993, novelist Michael Crichton riled the news business with a Wired magazine essay titled “Mediasaurus,” in which he prophesied the death of the mass media
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