Michael Chrichton as newspaper visionary

Slate published an interesting article on a fifteen year old discourse written by Michael Chrichton for Wired on the future of media. It is absolutly amazing on how predicitve it was, and more important to recognize that it was written at a time well before the commercialzation of the internet.

Of particular note is the need for the complete customization of interesting stories through the use of technology, and the lack of editorial "experts" deciding what is most important.

With information ubiquity, and ever improving algorithms and personal profiling this 15 year old vision is getting closer to reality. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt that newspaper sites will be the ones that bring the vision to light. Perhaps an information aggregator like Topix, but this would seem to be yet another advantage for Google. It's nearly imposible for a single source to fulfil all of the information needs for an individual user, so yet again the power lies with the aggregators.