A modest proposal for reinventing newspapers for the digital age - by Michael Hirschorn, December issue The Atlantic, just browsed Friday evening at Borders on 53rd

an eight-minute Flash-based movie called EPIC 2014, a piece of pop futurism. 'Evolving Personalized Information Construct' with which anyone can create news, the users subscribe to independent editors based on their interests, and everyone is paid from the billions in advertising Googlezon sells across this vast mediaverse.

Flash » Epic 2015 ---albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic
by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson cf.. EPIC 2014 robinsloan.com/epic

2015 living breathing mediascape ... the press as you know it has ceased to exist

TimBurnersLee 1989 computer scientist at Switz particle physics laboratort invents WWW
Amazon founded 1994 - model comes to set standard for internet sales - based on automated personalized recommendations, a store that can make suggestions
Google 1998 - logarithm echoes that model, treats links as recommendations, powers world's fastest most effective search engine
(Tivo unshackles television from time) tivo only mentioned in 2014 version
Pyra labs dotcom startup unveils Blogger 1999 personal publishing tool
(Friendster 2002 populated by users)
Ggl launches Google News l2002 portal of headlines & links edited entirely by computers, journalists cry fowl
2003 Ggl buys Blogger - 2003 is the year of the blog this is only said in 2014 version

2004 will be remembered as the year evth began...
Reason magz sends subscribers an issue with satellite of photo of their houses on cover & taylored content
ipod inspires podcasting and the age of personal radio begins - broadcast our own thoughts and music directly to others

(Microsoft Newsbot automated participatory social news network) yes this exists

(Ggl buys Tivo) wait that has not happened (though speculated about - "what is a tvguide channel but a need for search technology?" or sth to that effect). anyway I guess the updated 2015 version drops from 2004 things that had not happened? Epic 2014 released in November 2004; new version released in January 2005
Ggl buys Picasa tool for organizing images
Amazon releases A9 built on ggl technology
Ggle announces Gmail with Gb free storage for user
Ggl buys Keyhole - maps the world and puts it online

Ggl combines all services 2006 into functionally limitless always accessible platform Google Grid - select own level of privacy: store or publish on grid does this exist now? no not as such
never easier to make own lives part of media landscape

nice. I like ending it (the 2015 version) with several voices broadcasting, GPS-tagged, last voice: "Have you guys gone out today? If you haven't gone out today, please go out. It's an incredible day. Take a look a this." and we see blue sky, white drifting cloud.

the music and narration do seem ominous. how ominous? (all bad? what's so bad?...)
"at its best, taylored to its savviest user... but, at its worst, Epic is collectn of trivia much of it untrue, all of it narrow shallow sensational"
2014 version ends "Epic is what we wanted, its what we chose, but perhaps there was another way." I like the great ambivalence of the 2015 ending.

I dont feel worried, huh. (maybe shld.) and we already have this, subscribe to various independent voices ... "everyone contributes and many get paid, tiny cut of Ggle's advertsmt revenue proportional to popularity of their contribution"
but ok not yet sorted calculated words & sentences built into unique news story for each reader