More frequently than ever, wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers and hand-held personal digital assistants are the news outlets of choice. That is not to say television is out of the picture. Television news will be around for a long time to come, probably forever. But it is going to take on different forms and functions, as we witness the rollouts of enhanced and interactive applications and devices. So both the voices I hear are right, the external and the internal.
Interactive media are both the future and the present.
To search for possible answers I looked back at CNN Interactive's relatively brief history. CNN Interactive was formed as a division of CNN on January 1, 1995. The interactive world was vastly different then. CompuServe was the largest online service with 3 million members. America Online, now 25 million strong, had fewer than 1 million subscribers.