Saturday, February 12, 2005

2014 - EPIC, GoogleZon, Google Grid

epic_2014

If you have not watched it already, go ahead and watch it. The story is definitely "fascinating, amusing and unnerving". Have a look.

"In the year 2014,The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC?"

The 'Evolving Personalized Information Construct' (EPIC) is a look at how the media industry might be like in 2014. It is an 8 minute flash presentation by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. Pick a random mirror.

It also talks about GoogleZon (the alliance of Google and Amazon in 2008) and the Google Grid.

Also read the article from News.com

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