The only living boy in New York

April 16, 2012

According to US academic Philip Meyer, by April 2043 there will be just one regular reader of newspapers in the whole of the USA, a country of 312 million people. The analysis based on the current rates of decline of newspapers and the onset of digital reading is regarded even by Meyer as optimistic he says “The industry would lose critical mass and collapse long before then” on the grounds that nobody would continue to serve the needs of just a small number of traditional readers.

Still here’s an idea for using up all of those redundant digital readers which will be the inevitable consequence of newspaper decline – we could eat our fish and chips off them.