Microsoft's Ballmer: Predicts end of print newspapers and magazines by 2018

Wait...I still greet some people with fist bumps.

What the hell is wrong with me?

 

Is that better, worse or the same as it was 20 years ago?

 

Relax, it's OK for people over 50. It's between 19 and 49 when it looks bad.

 

Historically, it's about 30 percent "over time," magazine consultant Samir Husini said in 2000.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_2_29/ai_59282988

 

That is generally the group that desperately sets out to recapture youthful feelings by attempting to adapt what they think is "hip" or "cool."

 

I think magazines are in better shape than newspapers for a couple of reasons, they target specific demographics, even the news mags have become less time-dependent with more analysis and trend stuff giving them a longer shelf life and you can't Tivo past an ad in a magazine.

 

Pssst. It's a joke.

 

Pssst. Yeah, I got that.

But my statement about people over 50, and their attempts at perceived "hipness" stands.

 

Next week we'll read Ballmer's prediction from 1975 that radios would be nonexistent by 1990, and the one from 1985 that said we would be weaned off foreign oil by 2005.