Today Dave Cohn, a.k.a. 'digidave,' a technology reporter and the creator of the entrepreneurial journalism website, spot.us, gave a presentation to my Specialized Journalism class at USC. At the end of his hopeful talk he left us with this rather dismal yet humorous short film about what is going on with media right now and where we could be heading. The film, EPIC 2014, is a Flash movie released in November 2004 by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It is based on a presentation they gave at the Poynter Institute in the spring of that year. 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.It is 8 minutes long.
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Wow.
ReplyDeleteA. That was creepy. I felt like I was watching a sci-fi movie.
B. At first I was totally on board for the EPIC invention.
C. Now I'm not.
This video is creepy in part because of its truth. It ventures on the realistic just near enough to hit close to home. However, I think NY Times is closer to printing their content solely on "paper" than 2014...
I agree with Kirstin. I think the last stand will take place sooner rather than later. All of a sudden, 2014 seems like an eternity from now.
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