2014 - Wikipedia
The movie is presented from the viewpoint of a fictional "Museum of Media History" in the year 2014. It explores the effects that the convergence of popular News aggregators like Google News and Newsbot with other Web 2.0 technologies such as blogging, social networking and user participation may have on journalism and society at large in a hypothesized future. The film popularized the term Googlezon (hypothesized merger of Google and Amazon) and touches on major privacy and copyright issues raised in this scenario.
EPIC 2015 is an update to the original movie, released in January 2005. The movie follows the general direction of the original, but also examines the roles of podcasting, GPS and web map services such as Google Maps.
Wikipedia lays out the timeline I took notes on below...
In 2004, the rise of Gmail gives competition to Microsoft's Hotmail. Microsoft's Newsbot comes as a response to Google News. Picasa and A9 are also released this year. In August, Google goes public, acquires Keyhole (now Google Earth) ah right I knew that, a company that maps the world, and begins digitizing and indexing world libraries. Reason Magazine sends its subscribers personalized issues with satellite photos of their homes on the cover, and information tailored to them inside.
From this point EPIC passes into the realm of fiction.
In 2014, Googlezon unleashes EPIC, the Evolving Personalized Information Construct, which pays users to contribute any information they know into a central grid, allowing the system to automatically create news tailored to individuals, entirely without journalists. EPIC stores and categorizes not only news, but the demographics, political beliefs, and consumption habits of every user. At its best, EPIC is "a summary of the world — deeper, broader and more nuanced than anything ever available before ... but at its worst, and for too many, EPIC is merely a collection of trivia, much of it untrue." EPIC is so popular that it triggers the downfall of the New York Times, which goes offline and becomes "a print newsletter for the elite and the elderly."

* EPIC 2014: The Future Is Now - an explanation of the movie's origins by its creators
Visions of the future tend to age poorly. Over a year old now, EPIC's been patched up once, but time keeps pecking at it. Still, people from all over the world contact Robin and me to say how much they dig our little vision. And there's a common thread in all of their messages.The prophesies aren't, by and large, what interests them. right my notes stop after the 2006 portion eh to googlezon and the new york times going offline...They don't focus on what's going to happen. They talk about what's happening.
...And while we watch all of this metatagging, remixing, creating and associating, Robin and I know 2014 won't resemble the future EPIC describes.
Because 2005 already does. ah. rightO.

*Snarkmarket - Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson's blog about EPIC

--*Robin: This is, by a wide margin, the coolest use of EPIC I have yet seen: A professor at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Pennsylvania sets it up as the subject of an exercise in critical media consumption and information verification. Nice use of a wiki, too.

--*Robin:maybe you'll love this as much as I do: EPIC 2015 in German!
Epic 2015 auf deutsch: Hier anschauen.