2025: Visions for the Future of Publishing

2025: Visions for future of publishing

I am Paul Lomax,Chief Technology Officer at

You can find me at @PaulLomax

Hello!

1,300,000Trees planted to date

3,000,000Trees planted by 2025

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“It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future.”

Niels Bohr

Looking backover my shoulder (I can see that look in your eye)

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4th Feburary 2006

◉No iPad ◉No App Store ◉No iPhone ◉No Facebook (in the UK)◉No Twitter◉No WhatsApp

Could you have predicted 2016?

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“Facebook is the new Google... Perhaps it’s the new Internet

(albeit privately owned).”Paul Lomax, 29th May 2007

Amara’s LawWe tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in

the long run.

Dennis App Store revenue 2011

Dennis App Store revenue to 2016

Same product, different medium?

Print

Website

Digital

Edition

Look to the future nowIt’s only just begun

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Google Chrome will include

ad blocking by default.AMP acceptable ads will be exempt. An attempt to clean up the web whilst, killing off ad-block protection rackets.

Platforms will overtake websites for reaching audiences.Maybe Snapchat is the new Facebook. But it won’t be about driving traffic to websites anymore.

Print magazines will still exist.But fewer - only those which lend themselves to the medium, eg◉ A service (like The Week)◉ For the coffee table (like

Cyclist)◉ Put it your hands (like

Coach)

Any questions ?You can find me at

@PaulLomaxlinkedin.com/in/paullomaxpaul_lomax@dennis.co.uk

Thanks!

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