Juxtaposition Project/ Final learning Blog

It has been a daily routine worldwide to wake up with a fresh a cup of coffee and to sit down with a newspaper for almost as long as anybody can remember. Now there is really no significant need for change in the traditional newspaper. It is convenient enough, most people when reading the newspaper are relaxing at their kitchen table getting ready to start the day. But one day I came up with the idea of having a newspaper being printed on playing cards. You may ask why someone would ever do such a thing. Now I am saying it’s just an idea any many people may disagree with it, but there certainly are some benefits to having your everyday news printed on a deck of cards. What if you wanted to specifically bring one certain article that intrigued you along to work or wherever you were going that day? With are current newspaper most you would have to cut out the certain piece or article to make transport of it more convenient, if the articles were printed on one single card or in some cases two or three it would be an issue. You could simply separate the few cards from the deck and bring them along with you. It would also cut back enormously on everyday recycling. Our world is supposedly “Going Green” we have come up with solutions, for cars, lights, even containers, bottles etc. But why have we never thought of changing our newspapers. A newspaper is an everyday object just like a car. Think of how much paper we use up with newspapers. I know that now a days most all articles are printed online, but that does not mean that the use for a hard copy newspaper is obsolete. Because it isn’t! The idea of a newspaper printed on playing cards would also increase drastically the number of children and young adults who read newspapers. Currently there is far from enough of young people who actually read newspapers. Now I am not saying that you should jump on the bandwagon and immediately think that the traditional newspaper format needs to be eliminated and we should all start printing articles on playing cards but it is something to think about. I recently surveyed a handful of people asking them multiple questions on how they would respond to this new form of obtaining news. Sean, a 19 year old student who attends Illinois State University said “I never in a million years would have thought of reading news from a deck of cards, I think it is an interesting idea but I don’t know how the older generation of readers would react to it”. Now I have to say this is the last the thing that came to my mind, but he does make a valid point. My uncles, aunts, parents, and grandparents have been reading the news how it currently is for years and probably would not be happy with the change. I mean if you think about it, it is probably one of the last things they have left from their generation. Just throughout my lifetime the cellphone has emerged, DVD players, laptop computers, the newspaper is one of the last things that is familiar to them. So I thought who would be better to ask then my own father. I mean he is one of those Americans who wake up bright and early in the morning with a cup of coffee and his morning paper every day, just like clockwork. Now you don’t my dad and for those who do know that he doesn’t like to be told he is wrong, and he definitely is not too big of a fan of someone changing something on him, or telling him what to do. Just a few days ago I had my dad fill out the survey that I have created. Before I had him do this I thought that it would only be fair if I gave him a brief explanation on my idea. Surprisingly he agreed with many points that I had made. My father being an engineer is always on the move, so he thought that the mobility of the news being on cards and quick accessibility would definitely come in handy for him.  He wasn’t a hundred percent sold on the idea of him reading his daily quotas off of a deck of cards but believed that there were many interesting points that I had made. All in all I believe that my proposal of news being printed and distributed on playing cards is not too crazy after all who knows one day it could make millions, maybe even billions.