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Googlezon, Epic and the Death of the New York Times
Intriguing eight-minute Flash futurist positing of the rise of citizen media (blogs, social networks, computer-edited news) to the point that Google and Amazon merge into Googlezon, eventually spawning a Big-Brotherish information service dubbed Epic (with a very clever logo, shown here; note the reflected image of Pi) that drives the New York Times offline to a "print only newsletter for the elite and elderly." It is presented as a documentary by the "Museum of Media History" set in the world 2014, with the somewhat klutzy coda, "But it didn't have to be this way" (or something to that effect.)
All in all it's thought-provoking, to be sure, but I don't think I buy its premise that citizen media is going to spell the end for traditional journalism.
Created by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson.
All in all it's thought-provoking, to be sure, but I don't think I buy its premise that citizen media is going to spell the end for traditional journalism.
Created by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson.
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