Found via GalleyCat, Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow: iPhone Kills Newsprint?
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, speculates in his blog (complete with drawings), about the longevity, or lack thereof, of newspapers.
Quoting GalleyCat:
“I predict that the end of printed newspapers will happen in the time it takes for most people to upgrade their cell phones two more times,” Dilbert creator Scott Adams prognosticates. “The iPhone, and its inevitable copycats, (let’s call them iClones) are newspaper killers. When you have a web browser in your pocket, a printed newspaper is redundant.” Adams runs through all the reasons he believes cell phones will become a more popular medium for delivering news to consumers than paper, then suggests that this shift will be attended by a complete restructuring of the way newspaper companies deliver their product, envisioning “a hybrid of social voting, such as you see on web sites like [Reddit and Digg], but further filtered by human editors who weed out the redundant, the juvenile, and the stuff unsubstantiated by facts.”