MMMM #516 -- 3D Journalism

The First TV image, 1928

     At some point in the turn of the previous century...the early 1900's, word must have been circulating about experiments on a machine that would send moving pictures into people's homes.     
     It was so new that I am sure most people doubted it was true. 
     Now, The New York Times is starting to distribute its news in 3D video files, putting "readers" in the middle of the story. It is being called the future of storytelling, which is, after all, what we in the business of journalism do.
     There are cardboard viewers you can get for free from The Times if you subscribe to their old fashioned Sunday "paper", or you can buy them if you do not. 
     Some of the viewers look like what they are, cardboard folded into a viewer-like device. Others look like this..

...a steampunk inspired creation that may influence you to have a tattoo and piercings done on your neck. Or somewhere.
   It may be the future. Or not. Remember some previous future TV predictions:

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     And another TV prediction that did not come true happened on Friday. GOP Presidential candidate Carly Florina agreed to be a guest on The View because she may have expected a kinder and gentler treatment from the ladies.
     It wasn't to be. 

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