What is the future?

     I think that the thing that has baffled me the most in reading and contemplating the future of journalism is how fast things are moving.  How we perceive news and where we obtain it from is changing on a daily basis.  Everywhere news companies are changing how they present news and the formats which news is broadcast.  Sources are derived from everywhere now due to the accessibility of hand held media devices such as cell phones and video recording devices.  This trend is particularly interesting because I can be involved in what is taking place in Libya and their revolution whereas had I lived even 50 years ago I would wait and hear it second hand.  Now I can see first-hand footage captured and transmitted into outer space and back again as though it were happening in my own city.  I really do feel that this is a big improvement because there are some things I can witness and the news can cover right away.  Before, due to the inavailability of these devices it was nearly impossible to have video coverage of them.  The perfect example which is outlined in the reading where amateur footage was the primary source is the attack on the twin towers on September 11, 2001. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuQl9hUC00k Because of this type of coverage people across the world are able to have personal experiences with things which they never witnessed first hand.
     However, what will the future of journalism be?  Well, that is the question to which no one seems to have the answer.  Why?  Because if we were to step back twenty years there is no possible way that anyone foresaw that journalism would be where it is today.  There was absolutely no way that anyone could possibly foretell the tools available. http://www.newsandtech.com/resources/  Perhaps we will advance to the point were we will have devices implanted that will immediately transmit the latest urgent news into our minds or perhaps we will revert back to having the news reported to us on chalkboards like this man http://creamcityandsugar.blogspot.com But one thing is certain and that is that only the future can tell what it holds for journalism as it rolls out before us.