GYoung Digital Blog

There’s been quite the flurry of news in the past couple weeks.

On one had, the world is going to end, and everyone is going to die.

On the other hand, our economy is crumbling, and all our work and jobs are all going to become homeless.

Homeless, and dead, it would seem.

Of course, that’s all ridiculous; it’s the onslaught of non-stop news notifications, at a a rapid-fire pace that is causing a bit of a panic. While, in the past, I would imagine, the news came out much slower, by fewer people, that people had time to digest the events of the day, relatively speaking, anyway.

Today, everyone knows about the news as soon as it breaks. So, if there’s a frightening virus from the other side of the world, the rest of the world will know about it within hours, or minutes. Or seconds.

Makes one wonder what might happen in the future, from today?

Can news really come at us any faster than they already are?

Well, probably. After all, people aren’t unconditionally exposed to the news, they could just as easily leave their phone in the next room, while that person goes to make dinner, or clean the house, or fix the plumbing; whatever they’re doing, they’re still aloud to ignore the news in some way.

However, there’s a chance that in the future, we may not be able to avoid notifications. Or, at least, it will be harder to avoid information coming our way.

It might not be the speed of the information, but rather, the manner in which it’s recieved.

So, since information is sent out from so many places, perhaps there’s a time when information is sent out from even smaller, more direct places; perhaps someone created an algorithm that sends you news about what’s likely to happen to your money in your bank due to the news; With this coronavirus that’s out there, and with so many stocks crashing, suppose, rather than getting a broad headline about how the Dow is crashing, or markets are crashing, you might get a news that says, “your account is expected to drop this percentage amount because of this thing that just happened, and unless you do this, then you’ve lost all your money.”

The future of digital media sounds frightening.