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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he sees a future in which newspapers are like horses — a luxury item for a small group of people, not a mainstream transportation method — but his analogy is both right and wrong.
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Mathew Ingram explores the comparison and finds it wanting. He says in some ways moving from print to digital publishing is like going from cars back to horses as transportation. Good quote that captures his point:
"But if you accept the argument (made by Economist writer Tom Standage, among others) that media in many ways is becoming more personal and social — in much the same way it was in the 1800s, before newspapers were born, when coffee shops and gossip were the primary method of news delivery — then what we have is a lot more like horses than it is like cars."
It's a good read.