We often hear about the decline of newspapers, with the subtext that it is just a natural consequence of evolving technology or some other undefined force of nature. This article throws a nice bucket of reality on this sleepy kind of thinking. The article does not suggest this, but its observations apply quite as well to television and radio as well as newspapers.

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We often hear about the decline of newspapers, with the subtext that it is just a natural consequence of evolving technology or some other undefined force of nature. This article throws a nice bucket of reality on this sleepy kind of thinking. The article does not suggest this, but its observations apply quite as well to television and radio as well as newspapers.

Authors Bio:

Attended college thanks to the generous state support of education in 1960's America. Earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Illinois followed by post doctoral research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Taught for several years at Lehigh University prior to a short stint at Bell Laboratories but followed by a much longer career at NEC punctuated by ten U.S. and international patents in the general area to semiconductor applications.

Now living in a comfortable Maine retirement community and focused on the prospect of upgrading democracy by means of an improved voting system.