more on Google owns the news by 2014

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org>
Date: May 13, 2005 8:40:03 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Ip ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Google owns the news by 2014


Hi Dave -

"Books will be obsolete.  Scholars will soon be instructed through the
eye.  It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the
motion picture.  Our school system will be completely changed in ten
years."

Thomas Edison, quoted in P.A. Saetler, History of Instructional
Technology (McGraw-Hill, New York: 1968).

Regards,

Carl


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>
> From: Peter Jones <peter () redesignresearch com>
> Date: May 12, 2005 5:53:58 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Google owns the news by 2014
> Reply-To: peter () redesignresearch com
>
>
> Dave - I wonder if you would find this as interesting and relevant as
> I did.
> Your list comes to mind as the primary alternative channel for this
> discussion.
>
> The year is 2014. the press as we know it no longer exists.  
> Traditional
> reporting has collapsed. News is churned out by the media giant
> Googlezon.
> (Google has taken over many companies and joined forces with Amazon.)
> The
> news consists of blogs, attitudes, discoveries, preferences,  
> claims, and
> random thoughts, gathered and shaped by computers and a few human
> editors,
> then fed back to ordinary people who produce the continuing
> conversation.
> The New York Times is off the Internet. It still publishes, but the
> newspaper has become a newsletter read only by the elite and the
> elderly.
>
> This is the finding of a clever, eight-minute mock documentary, EPIC
> 2014,
> produced by the fictional Museum of Media History (in reality,
> journalists
> Matt Thompson of the Fresno Bee and Robin Sloan of Current, a new
> cable news
> channel in San Francisco). Thompson and Sloan recently added a short
> section
> taking the history up to 2015. The mockumentary is starting to reach
> a mass
> audience at a time of unusually high anxiety for the news industry.
> The news
> business has been hobbled by a string of scandals and credibility
> problems.
> Skirmishes between reporters and bloggers seem like the beginning of
> a long
> war between old media and new. Newspaper publishers are nervous--some
> would
> say paralyzed with fright--over polls showing that young adults are  
> not
> reading papers. Their audience is dying off. A lot of young people
> say they
> get their news from a brief look at headline news or from late-night
> comedians.  ...
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20050511/ts_usnews/
> googlingthefuture
>
> Mockumentary site at: http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
>
>
> Peter Jones
> REDESIGN RESEARCH       innovation insight
> http://redesignresearch.com/blog/reblog.htm
>
>
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