MEDIA: Googlezon Wins In 2014

Interesting vision of how Google will rule the media landscape in 2014 from the Poynter Institute for Journalism. From the Google Grid in 2006 to Googlezon (Google buys Amazon) in 2008 to the mysterious and Matrix-like birth of EPIC in 2014. This Flash piece take a newsreel style look at the coming hyper world of consolidation and personalization. Of course, it's pretty "guns and butter" in it's simplicity. Nothing about what role consumers will play beyond passive demo spoon monkey, nothing about the big content players like Disney and Sony, and nothing about web services like Yahoo and Barry Diller. Also, this vision plays out in a very linear fashion. Technological evolution rarely follows geological time; it is all about the catastrophic event that changes the landscape quickly...although 9 years is pretty quick. Crystal balls are fun, but by their nature they always raise a thousand more questions. Watch it.