Googlezon

October 21, 2005 3:48 AM

Epic 2014 In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? A look back from the year 2014, charting Google's takeover of traditional media. (Flash, sound)
posted by punilux (27 comments total)

A repost, I do believe. And the content is a bit too melodramatic, and therefore, silly.
posted by zardoz at 3:51 AM on October 21, 2005

My links:
37142 - November 22, 2004
37875 - December 16, 2004
42540 - June 4, 2005
46030 - October 21, 2005

My secret: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3Ametafilter.com+%22Epic+2014%22&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&fl=0&x=wrt

My agenda: The destruction of this obscenely melodramatic 'Brick and Mortar gonna get PWNED yo!~!' malarchy that has plagued my blessed browsing experience since 2004.

My statement: Good morning!@
posted by cavalier at 3:57 AM on October 21, 2005

Oh bollocks. I did try every damn thing I could think of. Delete away! (I see the URL's changed, which caught me out).
posted by punilux at 4:00 AM on October 21, 2005

OOoh! Dagnabit! Forgot!

The author: 12187 - who will likely be pleased his red headed stepchild has been birthed again! Yearrgh! His point continues to be proven! In a way! [ERROR - EXCLAMATION POINT LIMIT (4) EXCEEDED - POST TRUNCATED]
posted by cavalier at 4:02 AM on October 21, 2005

punilux, you can do no wrong in my eyes ever since you posted a link to fatboy slim's video for the joker. now found here. good day everyone!
posted by cavalier at 4:10 AM on October 21, 2005

you know... it is four times as good as most FPP's. if that counts for something. And it doesn't.
posted by trinarian at 4:12 AM on October 21, 2005

Cheers cavalier! I fell slightly redeemed, and will remove these pencils from my nose before I smash my head on the desk.
posted by punilux at 4:14 AM on October 21, 2005

Google? No. In 2014 the traditional media will be run by pandas.
posted by chasing at 4:47 AM on October 21, 2005

In 2014, the wonderchicken will run the media, suckas. And don't you forget it.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:21 AM on October 21, 2005

I love the smell of shadenfrude in the morning!
posted by Balisong at 5:29 AM on October 21, 2005

Well, I hadn't seen it yet. So thanks for that, anyway.

(*cough* Schadenfreude)
posted by ruddhist at 5:33 AM on October 21, 2005

In 2014 the traditional media will be run by pandas

It would appear that the NY Times already is.
posted by spock at 5:33 AM on October 21, 2005

The grid in my head has more of a Jackson Pollock style layout , nothing like this square representation of all thought.
posted by unklspot at 5:33 AM on October 21, 2005

In 2014, the wonderchicken will run the media, suckas.
Considering how well your hostile takeover of MetaFilter went...
posted by wendell at 5:35 AM on October 21, 2005

googlezon is a stupid name. Also I want to see if [ERROR - EXCLAMATION POINT LIMIT (4) EXCEEDED - POST TRUNCATED] really happens. !!!!!!!!!!
posted by kenaman at 5:51 AM on October 21, 2005

Considering how well your hostile takeover of MetaFilter went...

YOU'RE FIRED!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:53 AM on October 21, 2005

Mondrian?
posted by fire&wings at 5:55 AM on October 21, 2005

Man this is ooooolllllldd.
posted by Billistics at 6:07 AM on October 21, 2005

It's nice to have been first in something...

But seriously, I'm not surprised that this keeps popping up; it's a well-crafted bit of speculative fiction.

As a side note to the esteemed grrarrgh00, EPIC was mentioned this past week at a statewide technology conference here in the First State. A University Professor giving a talk on blogs, wikis and RSS mentioned it as an example of thought pieces about where we might be headed.
posted by mmahaffie at 6:11 AM on October 21, 2005

Old and stupid. They spend half the fucking video recapping what's already happened—or rather, what had already happened by the year 2004. "In 1998, Google was created..." Wake me up when we get to the future, will you? And then the last half, the Amazing Predictions, turn out to be an overlong elaboration of a zillion op-ed thumbsuckers about how New Media are going to ruin Old Media.

Also, 1989 was by no stretch of the imagination "midcentury."
posted by languagehat at 6:15 AM on October 21, 2005

I thought is was funny, in a self-parody, satire of overweening earnestness sort of way.
posted by mmahaffie at 6:17 AM on October 21, 2005

GOOGLEZON!!11

if they didn't trot that out, as far as I remember, it would have been okay.

but anyway, I watched it in, like, 1987, and this is an octuple post.
posted by blacklite at 6:19 AM on October 21, 2005

Googlezon Modeling School, learn how to look familiar to others.
posted by eatitlive at 7:06 AM on October 21, 2005

"...and as we all know, 'Googlezon' would make an excellent name for a rock band."

/dave barry
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 7:09 AM on October 21, 2005

AOLMetaGoogleZonSter ftw!
posted by Harry at 7:31 AM on October 21, 2005

By 2014 all media will be pwned by Al Jazeera. Including al-Howard ib-Stern.
posted by meehawl at 7:53 AM on October 21, 2005

Geez, who made this tripe? Lamefilter.

Languagehat, you're the first person I've heard comment about that midcentury bit, although it gets me every time I hear this thing. Chalk it up to bad editing. When we converted this from a fugly-ass Final Cut Pro movie into Flash, we shortened the intro (not enough, apparently! :), which initially stretched the timeline back into the '60s. I think we talked about ARPANET, but I'm not sure.
posted by grrarrgh00 at 8:19 AM on October 21, 2005