That vision of convergence – including a harmonious, silky-smoothe newsrooms staffed by two people – didn’t anticipate the emergence of social media or citizens gathering and distributing news independent of big media, through blogs, camera phones and services like Twitter. But it did include a sophisticated vision of how distributed professional news teams could collaborate and react quickly to serve and inform audiences on whatever devices they preferred to use. That was a radical idea for most print-obsessed newspapers eight years ago.
The video was also prophetic: its story was based on a massive air traffic computer failure. That’s what happened today.
