I remember the late, great columnist David Nyhan of the Boston Globe speaking at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard about the future of newspapers. He predicted that the big ones would survive along the Northeast corridor, and all the rest of print would be only trade journals. Never has this been more obvious than now, with prattle from those covering the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which seems to be nothing more than copying and pasting press releases from the new Polaroid Corporation.
Please notice the only color appearing on these product designs. It's the mark of the Zink Corporation. Zink signifies the fact that the printer uses zero ink.
It's also apparent that the mechanism of the printer is installed in the camera shown above it, just the way you would install an extra hard drive in your computer. The printer will actually print a 3 x 4 inch photo, as was seen when Lady Gaga activated it with bluetooth technology from her cell phone camera.
But -- where were the photos created by the much heralded new Polaroid L30 camera shown above it? Or the heavy and ungainly sunglasses that were also supposed to create Polaroid photos?
More to the point -- where were the media cheerleaders who surely must have noticed the lack of empirical proof that two of the three products apparently weren't working. There is after all, a huge difference between a dummy, and a working dummy. No pun intended.
George Orwell's 1984 was 27 years ahead of its time. Group Think and Word Noise are here, and flourishing.
Images courtesy Polaroid Corporation.
