I remember sending my first email in the early 1990s, a clunky experience that meant logging on to two different computer systems. I thought it would never replace the much swifter fax. The internet was already revolutionizing the flow of information, and as editor of the Guardian’s gargantuan media section in the U.K. (printed every week with 50 pages of job ads), I was the proud owner of one of the first “WAP-enabled” mobile telephones. I mused in the front-cover headline whether this was “The End of Newspapers?”
Newspapers fight on, and today I am at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, contemplating the next technological revolution. It turns out it’s a bit more consequential than the arrival of email.
