Something old...Something new...
These words are the beginning to a very familiar wedding custom phrase...
"Something old" symbolizes continuity with... family and the past. "Something new" means optimism and hope for the... new life ahead. (Ask Yahoo)
The phrase is certainly appropriate as an analogy to describe the rapidly changing technical world that we suddenly find ourselves in..as related to our culture and society...and, especially as related to the world of publishing...
What we are witnessing is the literal "marrying"- a union between a long, proud, predictable, and established heritage to a very "new" and different present and future..."publishing" and the "delivery of published content" is changed... It is however, still all about "communicating content..." ...communicating...
Something old...
"Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature of information...
Traditionally, the term refers to the distribution of printed works such as books ...
Publishing includes: the stages of the development, acquisition, copyediting, graphic design, production - printing...marketing and distribution..." Publishing (Wikipedia)
Something New....
With the advent of digital information systems and the Internet, the scope of publishing has expanded to include electronic resources, such as the electronic versions of books and periodicals, as well as micropublishing, websites, blogs, video games and the like. Publishing,(Wikipedia)
"E-books [and their distribution via mobile devices] are only the latest application of age-old principles to new 'content-containers'. Every such transmutation yields a surge in content creation and dissemination. The incunabula - the first printed books - made knowledge accessible (sometimes in the vernacular) to scholars and laymen alike and liberated books from the tyranny of monastic scriptoria and 'libraries'." The Future of the Book Business, (Publishing Central)Greatest Inventions -"Communications Media"
Something(s) old... and "kinda old" ...
Telephone"...an "apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically", after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers...." Invention of telephone, (Wikipedia)
Television"...telecommunications medium for transmitting and receiving moving images..." Television, (Wikipedia)
Home Computer"...widely predicted that computers would soon revolutionize many aspects of home and family life..." Home computer, (Wikipedia)
" '1984' is an American television commercial which introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer for the first time.
"1984 advertisement,(Wikipedia)
"1984 advertisement,(Wikipedia)
Something(s) new...
A mobile devicecellphone device, handheld device, handheld computer, "Palmtop" or simply handheld) is a pocket-sized computing device, typically having a display screen with touch input or a miniature keyboard. In the case of the personal digital assistant (PDA) the input and output are combined into a touch-screen interface. Smartphones and PDAs are popular amongst those who require the assistance and convenience of a conventional computer, in environments where carrying one would not be practical. Mobile device,(Wikipedia)
Something Old...
We might say that communication consists of transmitting information from one person to another. In fact, many scholars of communication take this as a working definition, and use Lasswell's maxim, "who says what to whom in what channel with what effect," as a means of circumscribing the field of communication theory. Communication theory, (Wikipedia)
Communication... is still the fundamental way that "us humans" and our world interact...
Now that we can "do it better"...
we need to be "doing it better"... communicating, relating, sharing, information and knowledge...
humans being... making a better world...
...it seems very possible doesn't it?
