EPIC 2015

This is a bit dated but still interesting to watch. It is amazing how on the edge we are with this whole idea. This is the 2015 updated version.

From the 2014 Version Description on YouTube

EPIC 2014 was a Flash movie released in November 2004 by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson with original music by Aaron McLeran. It was based on a presentation they gave at the Poynter Institute in the spring of that year. The movie is 8 minutes long and is licensed under a Creative Commons non-commercial license.

The movie is presented from the viewpoint of a fictional “Museum of Media History” in the year 2014. It explores the effects that the convergence of popular News aggregators, such as Google News, with other Web 2.0 technologies like blogging, social networking and user participation may have on journalism and society at large in a hypothesized future. The film popularized the term Googlezon and touches on major privacy and copyright issues raised in this scenario.

(This post originally appeared in December 2014 on Baedon’s old Blog)

Baedon

Baedon Glendower is the name used by the owner of this website dating back to his BBS days. Most of the articles you see with this by-line are dredged up from his archives, though you will see it used for new articles as well.