The Dayton Daily News dragged me into the "e-edition" world of newspaper reading.
First there were the introduction of symbols (cave paintings, petroglyphs, pictograms, and ideograms). After writing and alphabets were developed, humans now had systems to document and record events. Through smoke signals, drums, horns, runners, pigeons, lamps, telegraphy, radio and television, the dissemination of those events could now be more widely and, via those last three, almost instantaneously announced to a global audience. The introduction of computers and internet-based communications exponentially enhanced this process to the point of almost reversing course and replicating the mediums it replaced. Streaming audio and video have eliminated the temporal demands of radio and television programming. Now, with devices and software interfaces to closely resemble the newspaper reading experience, another long-held tradition appears to be biting the dust.
