There are a lot of websites out there that utilize the word "future" inside their domain name, but are they really futurist type websites? It is recommended often by print publishers and editors that the phrase "future" is a good word to use within titles, since it grabs people's attention. But, when people utilize the word future and then don't give predictions or future accounts, then are they really deceiving the viewer and web-surfer. I think they are.
Recently, an editor of another of things type website asked me to publish a column, in reviewing the internet site I discovered it to be underwhelming on the futuristic side of things, and more heavy in to the scientific news arena. Indeed, if the magazine is intent on "The Future" then why are typical the articles about new scientific innovations in the present period or happening today? - asked myself.
www.chatrush.com
raadpleger.nl
https://678-hd.com/
www.naiwaennet.com
It seems like they're intent on scientific discovery that's already happened, not what'll be in the future. That is just boring, more science news, regurgitation, typical human tactic of re-packaging information. I think they can do better, but are holding themselves back, afraid to produce people think, worried you will get too much from your own mainstream, quote "core" band of viewers, which I think they cannot even understand.
Needless to say, being an entrepreneur, I know why they do it this way. It is basically because they would like to earn money and thus sink to a lowered amount of readership, while still pretending to speak about the ongoing future of stuff. When the editor wished to guard such comments, the indication was that the website was mostly about scientific news.
Yes, I observe that the website is mostly a news site and I ask what does which have related to the ongoing future of stuff? Shouldn't the internet site be called NSIN.com or something that way; for New Science Innovation News? If the website is all about Science News and is an accumulation everyone else's news, then it is just a copy site of a category that is already used and not unique. Thus, the content is therefore exactly the same, so even though the articles are written more clearly and easier to understand, which will be nice, still what is the value to a "science news junky" as you will find very few articles on the site compared with their competition?
Should they called themselves a news site, then you can have "futurist type columnists" anyway, who might project these scientific news items into the near future or they may keep consitently the "Future Stuff" motif and promote the futurist columnists.
This will be a training to all "Futuristic" type websites as an incident study. For the near future thinkers to your website and have nothing to show them, they will leave. If you are using trickery to have regular readers there, you're doing a serious disservice to the ongoing future of mankind, by promoting present inventions as the be all end all. Either way, it's unethical to use this tactic on future of things type websites.
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