In the tradition of the EPIC video that predicted an ominous future for media and life, here’s the Prometeus video, now in the top viral lists, forecasting a world without media, an experience-based economy all owned by — you get one guess now — Google. It’s merely science fiction; I believe that the world is never so organized as many fear. But it’s entertaining.
(The video appears to come from this Italian consultancy. More here.)
Histories of the future often show the seems of the present, but I am here at the Apple WWDC conference where the iPod and iPhone (selling billions of platforms people want as opposed to millions that people are required) – suggests a scenarios where computer shrink to 0 size fitting nicely within some i-communicator. That thing on Captain Kirk’s tunic – in the shape of an A, as I recall.
Well, think of the upsides. If we can choose our own realities there would be little need for drugs, alcohol, or marriage counseling. And, journalists could re-live their glory days over and over — the times when they believed they were publishing unbiased truth, and the public actually agreed with them. (Steve Boriss, The Future of News)
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Steve,
There would still be the need for marriage counseling. When it comes to marriage we already live in our own reality. Marriage counseling is about the intersection of conflicting realities. Even in science fiction, my job is secure:)