NYT's Future Maybe Smart Content

Yesterday at the Emerging Technologies conference, New York Times interface specialist, Nick Bilton discussed some of the new technology coming out of the Times research and development lab which might help bring the paper of record into the 21st century.

One of the innovative concepts he discussed was “smart content,” a system that would keep track of what users have read digitally across all devices. With this system, a reader who has looked at a story on their computer, will find this area grayed out and replaced with new content when they load the Times on their iPhone, assuming&#151smartly&#151readers want to only be presented with the most current data.

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