{"id":4284,"date":"2011-12-16T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2011-12-16T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:04:00","slug":"most-print-newspapers-will-be-gone-in-five-years-the-desktop-pc-is-dead-long-live-the-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4284","title":{"rendered":"Most print newspapers will be gone in five years, The desktop PC is dead; long live the tablet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/annenberg.usc.edu\/News%20and%20Events\/News\/111214CDF.aspx\">USC Annenberg News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Over the next three years, according to Cole, the tablet will become the primary tool for personal computing. Use of a desktop PC will dwindle to only 4-6 percent of computer users \u2013 writers, gamers, programmers, analysts, scientists, and financial planners \u2013 and laptop use will decline as well.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n\u201cThe tablet is such an inviting gadget,\u201d said Cole. \u201cThe desktop PC is a \u2018lean forward\u2019 device \u2013 a tool that sits on a desk and forces uses to come to it.  The tablet has a \u2018lean-back\u2019 allure &#8212; more convenient and accessible than laptops and much more engaging to use.  For the vast majority of Americans, the tablet will be the computer tool of choice by the middle of the decade, while the desktop PC fades away.<br \/><Br><br \/>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t see a negative consequence in the move to tablets,\u201d said Cole, \u201cbut the coming dominance of tablets will create major shifts in how, when, and why Americans go online \u2013 changes even more significant than the emergence of the laptop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCirculation of print newspapers continues to plummet, and we believe that the only print newspapers that will survive will be at the extremes of the medium \u2013 the largest and the smallest,\u201d said Cole. It\u2019s likely that only four major daily newspapers will continue in print form: The New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.  At the other extreme, local weekly newspapers may still survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impending death of the American print newspaper continues to raise many questions,\u201d Cole said. \u201cWill media organizations survive and thrive when they move exclusively to online availability?  How will the changing delivery of content affect the quality and depth of journalism?\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC Annenberg News: Over the next three years, according to Cole, the tablet will become the primary tool for personal computing. Use of a desktop PC will dwindle to only 4-6 percent of computer users \u2013 writers, gamers, programmers, analysts, scientists, and financial planners \u2013 and laptop use will decline as well. \u201cThe tablet is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,21,39,23,11,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}