The first decade of the 21st century has come and gone and luckily we’re all still here. Y2K came and went without so much as a light bulb going out. Technology didn’t falter as predicted; rather, it enabled profound progress. We’ve spent the last ten years illuminated by blizzards of information. Nobody seems to remember the way things were—like the days of pagers and dial-up—all the way back in the 20th century. The Web for example, has snowballed, rolling over itself again and again while redefining the ways we walk through life. 

Forward motion appears to be the driving force of humanity. We can’t stay still. Our rate of progress is scary, almost too swift to adjust. But we are adjusting; we must adjust. 

The University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication, just two years shy of its centenarian, is scrambling with heavy breaths and gritty determination to adjust. The world of journalism is evolving faster than it ever has before and we’re all attempting to rapidly rethink our roots for the foggy future that’s barreling towards us. I’m surprised even Google, with a reported 100,000 news-related hits a minute, has been able to keep up.

But this is the fun of humanity, the fun of progress. This is what we do—we adjust and move forward just to redefine it all again, hopefully for better. Ethos is doing our best to embrace the modern whirlwind of journalistic evolutions, investigating cost effective printing, and investing further into the cyber world. 

Ethos has some exciting things in the works. Who knows where we’ll progress from exploring the world’s toilets, examining the nuances of socialist health care, or getting a feel for Eugene’s eclectic barbershops. All we ask from you is to keep reading, and maybe hand a free copy to a friend. 

Links

2010 Winter Edition, Ethos Magazine