There are a lot of websites available that use the word "future" in their domain name, but are they really futurist type websites? It is advised often by print publishers and editors that the word "future" is an excellent word to use in titles, because it grabs people's attention. But, when people use 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 a future of things type website asked me to write a column, however in reviewing the website I discovered it to be underwhelming on the futuristic side, and more heavy into the scientific news arena. Indeed, if the magazine is seriously interested in "The Future" then why are all 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 appears like they are seriously interested in scientific discovery that has already happened, not what will maintain the future. That is just boring, more science news, regurgitation, typical human tactic of re-packaging information. I do believe they can do better, but are holding themselves back, afraid to make people think, worried you will get too far from your own mainstream, quote "core" number of viewers, which I think they do not even understand.
Obviously, being an entrepreneur, I am aware exactly why they get it done this way. It is basically because they would like to generate income and thus sink to a lowered level of readership, while still pretending to speak about the continuing future of stuff. Once the editor wished to defend such comments, the indication was that the site was mostly about scientific news.
Yes, I realize that the site is certainly caused by a news site and I ask what does that have related to the continuing future of stuff? Shouldn't the website be called NSIN.com or something that way; for New Science Innovation News? If the site is approximately Science News and is an accumulation of everyone else's news, then it is just a copy site of a variety that is already used and not unique. Thus, the information is therefore the same, so even though the articles are written more clearly and easier to know, which will be nice, still what is the worthiness to a "science news junky" as there are very few articles on the internet site compared using their competition?
When they called their selves a news site, then you might have "futurist type columnists" anyway, who might project these scientific news items into the near future or they could keep the "Future Stuff" motif and promote the futurist columnists.
This should be a lesson to any or all "Futuristic" type websites as an instance study. If you take the near future thinkers to your website and have nothing showing them, they will leave. If you utilize trickery to get regular readers there, you are doing a significant disservice to the continuing future of mankind, by promoting present inventions since the be all end all. In either case, it's unethical to utilize this tactic on future of things type websites.
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