EPIC 2015
December 8 2006 10:59:03 AM
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If you have not seen this video, I really think this is worth 5 minutes of your time.
EPIC 2015 is a fictional movie that explores the effects that the convergence of popular News aggregators like Google News and Newsbot with other Web 2.0 technologies such as blogging, social networking and user participation may have on journalism and society at large in a hypothesized future. The timeline from 1989 to 2004 is accurate, and then 2005-2015 is fictional, but very interesting. It talks about the merger of Google and Amazon to form Googlezon, the News Wars of 2010, and ends in 2014 when Googlezon unleashes EPIC, the Evolving Personalized Information Construct, which pays users to contribute any information they know into a central grid, allowing the system to automatically create news tailored to individuals, entirely without journalists. The narration ends with the statement: "Perhaps there was another way."
Video - Wikipedia
Obviously for me "Access to information" is an important concept. It will be fun to see year after year which things come true or not. For example, while not called the "Google Grid", we have seen Google release an onslaught of tools this year.
I'd be interested in your thoughts.
EPIC 2015 is a fictional movie that explores the effects that the convergence of popular News aggregators like Google News and Newsbot with other Web 2.0 technologies such as blogging, social networking and user participation may have on journalism and society at large in a hypothesized future. The timeline from 1989 to 2004 is accurate, and then 2005-2015 is fictional, but very interesting. It talks about the merger of Google and Amazon to form Googlezon, the News Wars of 2010, and ends in 2014 when Googlezon unleashes EPIC, the Evolving Personalized Information Construct, which pays users to contribute any information they know into a central grid, allowing the system to automatically create news tailored to individuals, entirely without journalists. The narration ends with the statement: "Perhaps there was another way."
Video - Wikipedia
Obviously for me "Access to information" is an important concept. It will be fun to see year after year which things come true or not. For example, while not called the "Google Grid", we have seen Google release an onslaught of tools this year.
I'd be interested in your thoughts.
