WSJ D9 Conference: All Things Digital – Image Take Away

Posted on | June 6, 2011 | Comments Off on WSJ D9 Conference: All Things Digital – Image Take Away

IMAGE OF THE DAY

Want to understand new media technology? Read Walt Mossberg in the WSJ. Want to know the state of affairs? Go to the WSJ “All Things Digital Conference”. They just completed D9. On the last lines of the last page of the special supplement, Mossberg is interviewing Marc Andreessen, 40 year old grand old man of the Internet and co-founder of Netscape, when an audience asks a most prescient question:

AUDIENCE QUESTION: You talked about three platforms you thought were important from a hardware perspective—PCs, smartphones and tablets. What about smart TVs?

MR. ANDREESSEN: That could be very exciting. I’d like to buy one, I’d like to buy 10. A friend of mine has a three-year-old. He said the three-year-old walks up to the TV and swipes and nothing happens. The three-year-old says “Dad, the TV is broken.”

My message to health leaders and planners: That 3 year old is your audience.