The Media in 2014

Alexandre Van de Sande writes "Robin Sloan made a flash video as a "documentary" of how big enterprises like google and amazon converged medias and changed the way we see news by 2014. It's a vision of what could be (or will be) the world with personalized media, made by peers, and the guy knows what's going on on those big heads. It ends with a sad view on which, althought some people get their news in a way they could never before, most of them just get a bunch of untrue gossip and sensasionalist trivia. And that's exactly what they wanted." This will take a few minutes to watch, but stick it out to the end. I think there's a lot in there that you really should think about.

Comments

I am just afraid....

[should_be_linear]

... that some media in 2014 won't be digitally signed at all

RTFA?

[Anonymous Coward]

98% of /. readers don't read the article. What makes you think they'll watch it?

googlezon.com

[jez9999]

Damn, damn DAMN!!! I guess that domain parker will get rich instead of me now. >:-(

A plural of a plural?

[Anonymous Coward]

Robin Sloan made a flash video as a "documentary" of how big enterprises like google and amazon converged medias and changed the way we see news by 2014.

Maybe by 2014 the slashdot editors will have attained basic literacy.

Google Grid!

[jokerr]

Sounds interesting, where/when do I sign up? I just hope it comes before the MSMonopolyBoard!

Re:The media in 2014

[DrWho520]

Will they completely failed the American people...

You mean similarly to how your grammar teacher failed you?

Re:Documentary proves its own point

[soft_guy]

Plus the flash animation works far better as part of a pitch for venture capital.

time to jump the shark: 5 minutes

[cygnus]

is it me, or did this animation start to become laughable right around when the narrator managed to spit out the phrases "Googlezon" and "Newsbotster" without laughing his ass off? i mean really, how much Vallium did this dude have to take to do that with a straight face?