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This is a very cool look at how the future of technology was viewed in 1961, from a film AT&T commissioned shortly after AT&T had just announced its first modem. “This film not only serves as almost the birth of the information age, it also projects that technology far into the future.”

Indiana University is conducting a study looking at the ways Twitter users behave like journalists.

NewsCred, a New York startup that is building a next-generation digital wire service, announced tonight that former Reuters Media President Chris Ahearn will be joining its board. CEO Shafqat Islam made the announcement at a forum NewsCred sponsored on the future of news, held at General Assembly, a popular startup workplace in New York City. [...]

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Tow Foundation are  giving the Columbia School of Journalism a $2 million grant to fund “applied research in journalism” — studies that not only describe what’s happening, but prescribe the best practices for journalists to follow.

Jeff Jarvis’ excellent Kindle single, “Gutenberg the Geek,” is free today. You can download it here.

For the next 12 days, readers can get free access to BostonGlobe.com by entering their email address. BostonGlobe.com launched last October but so far sign-ups have been sluggish. The site has only attracted 18,000 paid subscribers so far, paidContent reports.

In answer to a question posted on Quora, the Q&A site, Washington Post Chairman said that the company’s Facebook app has led to a “substantial” change in the demographics of Washington Post readers. “More than 21 million people have now downloaded Washington Post Social Reader,  More than three quarters of them are under 35, so [...]