Media online in 2014: Google Grid, GoogleZon, EPIC

Revisit a WebTalk Radio episode from early 2005 that raises the topic of what the vision for Google might be and the coming content battle between old and new media online (EPIC 2014 Flash Creator).

Imagine your electronic world of 2014. What are the possible future outcomes for Google, Microsoft and Amazon? How will news and media be disseminated? What is the Google Grid? The predictions are made by a popular online eight-minute flash movie called Epic (the Evolving Personalized Information Construct).

Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson, both staff at the Poynter Institute for Journalism in Florida, look back at the history of the Web from 10 years in the future. Their story is fascinating, amusing and unnerving.

The video, available at www.robinsloan.com/epic from the Museum of Media History, is presented like a video transmission from the year 2014. It suggests possible future outcomes such as Google and Amazon merging to form GoogleZon, Google creating the Google Grid, visual bracelets, how Microsoft will acquire Friendster and gobble up other companies and the creation of EPIC by 2014.

Read a more complete article on the topic.

Listen to the audio discussion with:

Matt Thompson, Voice-over, Co-Creator of EPIC 2014

43 min. at 32K Stream

WinMedia or mp3
(full 43 min. show; 12 MB download)

Show Hosts: Rob and Dana Greenlee

Show Guest:
Itzik Cohen, Founder and CEO, Abazab.com beta
Abazab.com is an Internet service for social websites allowing people to share life via video using a chunk of code that is cut and pasted into other social networking websites.

Show Note Topics:
- Founding Microsoft Blogger Robert Scoble Leaves Microsoft
- Mexican / USA Border Secured by Websurfers
- World Cup Podcasts Popping Up
- Get Windows Vista Beta 2 via BitTorrent
- Open Source DRM Launched PachyDRM.org
- TiVo Puts Web Videos On Your TV

Listen 39 min show from June 13, 2006:
mp3 (16MB) and Windows Stream (48K)

Show Guest:
Blake Ross, Author and Co-Founder of the Mozilla Foundation FireFox Web Browser at www.blakeross.com. Blake has just authored a new Firefox for Dummies Book and he will tell us the whole story on the founding of Firefox and how it got its cool name.

Show Hosts: Rob and Dana Greenlee

Show Note Topics:
- Big Brother Wants to Browse your Browser
- At Home Web Use on the Rise
- Would you want a Mobile Phone Web Server
- Listener email from Tim
- Coming Melodeo.com Limited Beta Sign-up
- Replay A/V discussed

Listen 45 min show from June 5, 2006:
mp3 (18MB) and Windows Stream (48K)