Future of news - a documentary from 2014
By David Weinberger, 01/04/2005 - 10:34am

This Flash documentary by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson on the future of media describes a possible path from here to 2014 for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and the NY Times. I think it eventually goes off the rails, but it's well done and, IMO, worth the 11 minutes.

Video Didn't Kill the Radio Star

What an interesting film. Agree that it's worth watching. However, these doomsday scenarios seem a bit far-fetched. The Sony Betamax/VCR didn't kill television, MP3s didn't kill music, and video certainly didn't kill the radio star. I doubt that the Internet/Google can kill the Fourth Estate.

The tool is what's cool

I agree with Michael's skepticism, but what I really like about this is the tool itself. It used to be that if a polemicist wanted to warn us about some dire scenario, all s/he had was the printed word and barbed sarcasm (think of Swift's "Modest Proposal" to eat the poor). Now we can speak in four dimensions: word, sound, pictures and motion. It makes me feel like I need to take some time off to learn how to make iMovies and stop dabbling in print...

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