No Vision? In 30 years, NYT site will look like a Wordpress blog
Look back at the state of technology thirty years ago. Now, imagine yourself thirty years in the future.
What kind of untold, amazing sites are in store for us?
Based on what the New York Times envisions for their own web site, not a hell of a lot is going to change. Today, some visitors have been smacked in the face with a full-page popover ad showing an imaginary NYT site from 2040.
Where’s the fantasy? Where’s the awe-inspiring vision? The mockup looks like a fairly run-of-the-mill Wordpress theme. It’s the same three-column layout that we see on most blogs (like this one) right now. I was expecting an Optimus Maximus and I got a plain old black Logitech keyboard.
Maybe the Times crew knows something I don’t, but I sure hope that in thirty years I’ve come up with an experience for this lowly blog that is a little more compelling and a little less cookie-cutter.
At least they had the balls to use a different font in the header. That as to count for something, right?
[via Technologizer]
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