Steve Ballmer

By mid-2018 all media will be delivered over IP networks and no newspapers or magazines will be delivered in paper form.

“there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.”

Said on

5 June 2008 · Discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters, June 2008

Source

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer unplugged · The Herald (Everett), via The Washington Post

Should come true

2018

How sure they sounded

there will be (stated as fact); when pressed said the exact number of years was immaterial

Categories

Technology

Importance

3 of 5 · Would have meant the end of the print newspaper and magazine industry worldwide.

Outcome

Inaccurate

Print newspapers and magazines were still delivered in paper form well after 2018. Pew put US daily newspaper circulation (print and digital) at about 28.6 million weekday copies in 2018, much of it print. Print declined steeply but did not disappear.

Evidence:

• https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/23/key-takeaways-state-of-the-news-media-2018/