5/15/05

A glimpse of your future

EPIC Link goes to an 8 minute mini-movie transmission from the year 2014, from the Museum of Media History, special projects division. (Tampa Bay federal district, Florida). Its a Flash file, and best suited for those with broadband or cable conections. It is possibly the most important document circulating the internet today. It documents the collapse of Media.

Media as in the Roanoke Times, the New York Times, media outlets like CNN and FoxNews. It documents the fall of Microsoft. And it shows the history of Googlezon, the merger of Google and Amazon into the largest and most all-encompasing media outlet and single largest ever "virtual hard-drive" in the history of technology. The box in which your hard drive is stored is rendered obsolete. Everything is stored online, in either a private block accessable only by you, or in a public block which allows everyone to view your media. Its like having Blogger hardwired into your harddrive.

E-paper becomes the new preferred form of printed word. A thin, flexible digital paper; e-paper can recieve downloaded content, and display it just as any other printed ink. With the exception that it is completely customizeable, you can display what you want as content. You decide what stories you want as your daily news.

GoogleOS is, by all accounts, a few years off. Microsoft is running into endless hurdles with the beta testing of its Longhorn OS (next gen Windows). Apple Computers has never really been a major player in the world of Operating systems.

Google and Microsoft will be engaged in battle within the next few years.

And so begins the end of media as we know it.

You have been warned - everything changes from here on out. If you would rather not know, then dont watch.

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