Ballmer predicts the fall of newspapers

P-I blogger Todd Bishop this week links to a Washington Post interview with Microsoft exec Steve Ballmer, in which Ballmer predicts print media will fade in roughly a decade. He tells the Post: "In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down -- my opinion ... Here are the premises I have. Number one, there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form." He goes on to say: "Also in the world of 10 years from now, there are going to be far more producers of content than exist today. We've already started to see that certainly in the online world, but we've just scratched the surface. . . . "