Jun 16 2008 9:41 AM

Tall Guy With Glasses: 1, Bald Guy With Money: 0

Industry titan Thad McIlroy, Crown Prince of Publishing Punditry, called Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to task on Thad's blog yesterday for this MSFT gem as quoted in the WashPo:

"There will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form."

To that, the Sultan of Substance, the Mogul of Metadata quipped:

"In 10 years there will be no software that Microsoft will be able to profit from either in operating systems or as shrink-wrapped software."

What do you folks think?

Submitted by givvaDAM on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 15:56.

Sure, there will be electronic delivery onto future generations of Kindle-like devices or other things we cant think of right now. But I don't think it will be everything. Different strokes for different folks, right? Some things need paper to get the job done, other things need plasma screens above the deli counter in the supermarket to get the job done. More likely, the same company is blanketing with a campaign on all types of media.

There was no YouTube 10 years ago. Who knows? Maybe we'll devolve (we are Devo, after all) and few houses will have electricity because of who knows what environmental and political reasons. And the neighborhood kid may be back riding down the block on his bicycle flipping newspapers through our tent flaps.

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