Michael Calore

The Web of 2015: Googlezon Rules All

This is an odd little art project that Scott came across thanks to a review in the Atlantic Monthly (beware the ad page). It’s an eight minute Flash movie called EPIC 2015. It’s a historical film, told in the year 2015, tracing the growth of the web and the eventual death of the traditional news […]

This is an odd little art project that Scott came across thanks to a review in the Atlantic Monthly (beware the ad page). It's an eight minute Flash movie called EPIC 2015. It's a historical film, told in the year 2015, tracing the growth of the web and the eventual death of the traditional news media at the hands of a global conglomerate known as Googlezon.

Epic2015

It's funny, but also a little creepy. As the Atlantic Monthly observes:

What???s remarkable is how many of its
ten-years-out predictions have already come true???if not materially,
then de facto: the mass migration of everything to the Web, the
explosion of blogging, the near-instant embrace of social media, the growing sophistication of Google???s AdWords and AdSense, the TiVo-ization of television, and on and on.

One question: Wired News isn't really part of the traditional news media, but just in case, how long until I should start working on my resume?