(This piece appeared with my by-line on PrintCEO.)

From Print to Pixels – The Seattle P-I

Today’s closure of the Seattle Post Intelligencer – fondly called the P-I here in Seattle – sends the second major print newspaper online in a year. The Capital Times, Madison Wisconsin, made the move in April 2008, and now the P-I, a much larger circulation paper, has moved from print to pixels.

To read the entire article, go to Print CEO.

(Images are from the “Last Day at the Seattle P-I” slideshow.)

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When you think about how quickly things have changed in the last 10 years, it doesn’t seem to far out of reach to envision some of the things the Microsoft Labs folks have come up with here.

I was just thinking of the little Nokia cell phone I had in 1999 – and loved – because it was so easy to use. A tiny little screen with no color, but it was exactly what I needed at the time. Compare that to the iPhone I have now. A world of difference and who would have thought…

Thanks to Metaprinter we can take a look at some of the things the futurists have in mind. The following is a condensed version of a 5 minute video available from Microsoft Labs.

A list of just a few things they envision:

• “transparent wall” between two classrooms around the world
• animated drawings
• realtime conversation translations
• surface displays
• electronic boarding cards
• transparent displays
• mini projectors
• electronic newspaper

Who’s to say that we won’t be there in 10 years? After all, look at what the last 10 has brought!

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