A different EPIC. A friend has just reminded me of this interesting 8 minute audiovisual prediction about the future of the media. Nice opener for a seminar with a group of students. Some of the details are not quite spot on. It's arguable whether Tmi Berners-Lee "in 1989...invents the world wide web", for example. He certainly made an initial proposal to the management at CERN in 1989 but he wrote the software for the first rudimentary browser between November and December 1990. But this just adds a bit of spice to the discussion.
Given the state of copyright law I also doubt whether the future GoogleZon postulated would wipe out the New York Times... Fun thought experiment.
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