Hello! My name is Candice and this is my first year at TXST. I moved to San Marcos two years ago after graduating from Eastern New Mexico University (English literature). Since, I’ve been working at the San Marcos Record as their features editor.
In terms of newspapers, I can imagine back in the day when everyone had to use typewriters, develop film and mock up layouts by hand. We learned most of these things in high school (to be fair, I did go a well-funded and highly populated school), and going to any local news office, you realize that these things are not so obsolete. You’ll find a dark room at most newspaper offices. You’ll find measurement tools and layout markups (outdated, but kept out of a tendency to hoard). You’ll find physical records of old articles, photos, and whatever else could be documented and kept in a drawer for ages.
On the other hand, since the age of 5, I felt it was pretty obvious that computers were the future of technology. They did everything. We could write papers on them, play games, send messages, edit photos – everything you could think of. At least everything you could think of at the time, because the progress we’ve made in technology is exponential. Who would have dreamed we’d be able to do so much in such a small device? I don’t need to explain all the wonders that today’s internet has given us. It’s easy to see.
But what struck me the most in the video was how obstinate companies were about the future of the internet, particularly AT&T. Computers and the internet could do so much, but yet people were willing to believe that’s as far as you could go? I’m not technically minded, and many of the terms and explanations in the video went straight over my head. But what I do understand is how difficult developing this technology has been. Even when we see it growing by leaps and bounds, so many people have contributed their time and their work to making technology what it is today.
And, accordingly, it seems pretty obvious to me that the web is the future of media. The new generations (including our generation) already depend greatly on the web and applications. We’re at a transition point where nearly everything is “going mobile” and outlets need to keep up with new ways of connecting with readers, or they’ll be forgotten like those old papers in the filing cabinet.