Conversation

“If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?”

NOTHING

“With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.”

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/