EPIC, redux

The EPIC video (in which "Googlezon" takes over the media world in the twentyteens) has been updated to include recent developments and has a kinder, gentler ending. I personally prefer the original, partly 'cos I like my futuristic dramas dark, and partly because the new one has so much stuff in it that I think it loses a little of its original punch. But, to be fair, the part where I got bogged down is all stuff that's really happened.

At any rate, it's an absolute must-watch.

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UPDATE: Let me correct a false impression that some people are getting -- I did not create Epic. It was created by the brilliant Robin Sloan and the uber-talented Matt Thompson.  (No Jarvis-esque damning with faint praise here Matt!) I just mirrored a flash version here because I knew some of the people I was trying to show it to --as containing examples of things we're going to try at Pegasus News -- aren't yet hipped to the whole Bittorrent thing (which is how they're distributing it).

Comments

[Chris Heuer]

Great nextgen news here - cant recall the trail of blog posts that brought me here, but I believe it might have been SVW - regardless, I am curious as to which elements of EPIC you are thinking about taking on? Though there was a dark and gloomy tone to the 2014 piece, I still thought there was some value in pieces of their ideas and was wondering how we might do some of it - I actually have some ideas in that direction as well if you are serious...

[kathy]

this is all very interesting and I do plan to share with my students in the fall...

[Linda]

I can't get the epic 2015 to play anymore. What happened?

[Mike Orren]

Apparently a casualty of the site move last week. I'll re-post ASAP. Matt & Robin's torrent also seems to be down too, and I need to re-download. Check back in a day or so.

Sorry!