Highly digitized news will be no different, except complex tools will require reporters, producers and directors to be even more diligent. As always with computers, the margin for error gets smaller. And how viewers use pull technology to create their own view of the world raises another set of social problems. Connections between pieces of information, which computers can form so powerfully, lead viewers to choose unexpected paths to further information, to explore inviting links to new experiences. The human being is genetically disposed to curiosity and computers play to that strength.
Internet news lets the brain wander, seek and find.
And the more powerful the technology, the more experiences will be available for viewers to enter and share. Stumbling onto a Web cam that shows elephants cavorting at an African water hole can be a thrilling moment for a Web surfer. Before long, you will be able to become an elephant for a minute or a day. The possibilities will be limitless. He previously acted as the editor of the Los Angeles Times Web site.