An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media

CHAPTER 11

Future

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

— John Ruskin, Victorian author and scholar

Introduction

The future of electronic media, including motion pictures, is only partially dependent on the advances in the development of new equipment. Smaller, less expensive, higher-quality equipment will make a difference, but knowledge and inventive use of communication is the key—software and brain ware, not hardware, will determine the future of electronic media, especially for you as a writer. Social, civic, legal, and economic forces interact to guide changes, either to advance or to impede progress ...