There are always a large amount of websites available that use the word "future" inside their domain name, but are they really futurist type websites? It is preferred often by print publishers and editors that the phrase "future" is a great word to use in titles, as it grabs people's attention. But, when people use the word future and then do not give predictions or future accounts, then are they really deceiving the viewer and web-surfer. I think they are.
Recently, an editor of the next of things type website asked me to create a column, in reviewing the web site I found it to be underwhelming on the futuristic side, and more heavy to the scientific news arena. Indeed, if the magazine is serious about "The Future" then why are typical the articles about new scientific innovations in today's period or happening at this time? - asked myself.
www.chatrush.com
raadpleger.nl
https://678-hd.com/
www.naiwaennet.com
It looks like they are serious about scientific discovery that's already happened, not what'll take the future. That is just boring, more science news, regurgitation, typical human tactic of re-packaging information. I do believe they are able to do better, but are holding themselves back, afraid to make people think, worried you will get past an acceptable limit from your own mainstream, quote "core" number of viewers, which I think they cannot even understand.
Needless to say, as an entrepreneur, I am aware why they do it this way. It is because they would like to make money and thus sink to a diminished degree of readership, while still pretending to fairly share the ongoing future of stuff. Once the editor wished to defend such comments, the indication was that your website was mostly about scientific news.
Yes, I realize that your website is mainly a news site and I ask what does that have regarding the ongoing future of stuff? Shouldn't the web site be called NSIN.com or something like this; for New Science Innovation News? If your website is all about Science News and is a collection of everyone else's news, then it is a copy site of a genre that's already being used and not unique. Thus, the information is therefore exactly the same, so even if the articles are written more clearly and easier to know, which is nice, still what is the worth to a "science news junky" as there are not many articles on the website compared using their competition?
If they called them selves a news site, then you could have "futurist type columnists" anyway, who might project these scientific news items into the long run or they could keep consitently the "Future Stuff" motif and promote the futurist columnists.
This would be a lesson to all or any "Futuristic" type websites as an instance study. Invest the the long run thinkers to your website and have nothing showing them, they'll leave. If you utilize trickery to have regular readers there, you are doing an extreme disservice to the ongoing future of mankind, by promoting present inventions whilst the be all end all. In any event, it's unethical to use this tactic on future of things type websites.
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