Why is there no newsstand?

The disappearance of newsstands is inevitable.

2017101October 24th 15: 18 | Author: Zhang Tiankan | Source: shared by China Net:

At the peak, there were more than 2,400 newsstands in Beijing, and now there are more than 1000 left, which is planned to be phased out in three years.

This is the case all over the country, and newsstands that get along with people day and night are disappearing at an accelerated pace.

According to the data of China Post Group's Newspapers and Periodicals Distribution Bureau, by the end of 20 14, there were 30,506 newsstands nationwide, 20,000 fewer than in 2008.

As early as 20 12, Zhengzhou has become the first provincial capital city in China without newsstands.

Hohhot also said in March this year that all the existing newsstands in the city will be demolished.

The disappearance of newsstands is inevitable.

In this regard, many people are worried and even saddened, thinking that newsstands are a symbol of urban culture, and its disappearance may also disappear with the cultural atmosphere and content.

However, this is only the appearance.

At the same time or before the newsstand disappeared, it was the rapid popularization of smart phones and the comprehensive coverage of 4G networks. Whether on the street or on the subway bus, it is becoming a new cultural symbol that everyone brushes the screen of mobile phones. Its signal is that digital media has taken over and will completely replace paper media.

Newsstand is just an ancient cultural symbol. Even if the old cultural symbols disappear, culture will not disappear, but will present and attract people in more colorful forms, adding color and vitality to the world. For example, in addition to the scene where everyone is holding a mobile phone to read and smile, there are countless LED large screens in public facilities to spread information, information, pictures and guides, which has become a brand-new cultural symbol in the city.

From paper media to digital media, the media and forms of information dissemination have only changed. What remains unchanged is the unremitting pursuit and innovation of culture, knowledge and technology.

Qian Fan is on the side of the sunken ship! It is hard to say whether the paper media has sunk into the ship now, but in the long river of history, the fact that Qian Fan has surpassed it is doomed. Even if the paper media is not heavy now, it has lagged far behind the digital media. Now all that remains is to discuss how long paper media and digital media can coexist.

In a few years, people will definitely need several paper media to meet the needs of some people for reading and preservation, and even as a facade of cultural diversity.

However, it is too early to conclude that digital media will disappear completely like bamboo slips after the invention of paper. Moreover, when discussing whether paper media will sink, there is another view that paper media has more advantages than digital media in spreading knowledge and culture because people's reading habits, habits, understanding and thinking have completely adapted to the content printed on paper for thousands of years, even like the relationship between fish and water.

Moreover, this is based on research results.

In one study after another, the researchers asked college students to read both paper books (printed content) and e-books (digital content) with exactly the same content, so as to analyze their understanding ability of the contents.

The experiment requires college students to complete three tasks, one is to describe the main content of the article, the other is to list the key points of the article, and the third is to provide any other relevant content they can recall.

There are several impressive results: most students like to read digital formats; Reading digital (online) content is obviously faster than reading printed content; Students think that their understanding of digital content is better than that of printed content.

However, there are also contradictions.

The performance is as follows: the subjects' overall understanding of printed content is better than that of digital reading; Media will not affect the overall problem (such as understanding the main content of the article); However, when it comes to specific problems, the subjects have a better understanding of reading printed content.

This study clearly concludes that reading paper media has a better understanding of the content than digital media, which means that paper media is better.

However, the subjective feeling of the subjects in this study is that reading digital media is better than reading paper media.

Moreover, even if, as the research says, the comprehension ability of paper media reading is better than that of digital media in specific content, it may be the result of people being used to paper media reading for thousands of years.

If digital media reading becomes a fixed trend over time (digital aborigines have long been like this), understanding will be much better than paper media, just as paper media gradually replaces bamboo slips.

More importantly, when a technology or product created by technology is popularized, it will inevitably become a new way of life, cultural content and habit.

There are countless reasons why digital media is loved by people, but the biggest factor is its fast spread, easy reading, easy storage, real-time spread, convenient release and low cost.

Of course, digital media may not completely replace paper media, and they may coexist, but the limitations and retreat of paper media are also visible expectations. The gradual disappearance of newsstands in major cities is not only a signal, but also the reality of the decline of paper media.

Therefore, transformation is inevitable.

Looking into the future, when the digital media rises and unifies the world of information dissemination, there will be newer technologies and media to compete with the digital media for the world, and take the digital media as a sunken ship to ride the waves, such as biological media that relies on DNA storage and reading, DNA books and reading materials.

At present, DNA "Shakespeare's poems" have been made, and the volume is only the size of sand.

When reading, just use DNA sequencer to restore the information in DNA "Shakespeare's Poems" into digital files, and you can read them.

Moreover, if all the information and knowledge since the birth of human culture are stored, in fact, it is enough to have thousands or tens of thousands of nuclear DNA like human beings. Because of the multidimensional structure and folding of DNA, the space is unimaginable. If all human knowledge is stored, these storage materials will only take up a few cubic meters of space.

Of course, this is a combination of biotechnology and digital technology. One day, when technology is enough to support, just like today's digital publishing and reading, biological media will be popularized, surpassing or even eliminating digital media.

Humans need such innovation and should embrace it. Just like today, although they missed the demand of paper media and market, many paper media will stay, survive and even split from digital media. They must accept, adapt and embrace digital media.