It is all great stuff but the two key elements for me are
1 Pushed by host Steve Hewlett for a date by which The Guardian will not exist in print, Rusbridger said: "I was thinking 20 years at that point (2005). I think that might be telescoping quite dramatically now."
It is easy to forget that print editions of newspapers and magazines really are living to a timeline - they will be gone one day soon and at the moment that killer online business model is still not materialising
2 That The Times online doesn't have a Plan B if its paywall doesn't work
Rusbridger's prediction elicited the response from Witherow that he would be "disappointed" with 60,000 subscribers, but the Sunday Times editor refrained from giving his own estimate of the number of future paying users.
Witherow later said News International was "going full out to make it work" and did not yet have a plan B if it did not.
