E.P.I.C.

Robin Sloan (generalist writer and web-worker in San Francisco) has produced an original flash online movie for the Museum of Media History which predicts the evolution of media from 1984 up until 2014 and how newsmasters will eventually claim their territory. In this fictional narrative, the ‘Evolving Personalized Information Construct’ (known as EPIC) Sloan describes the system by which our sprawling, chaotic mediascape is filtered, ordered and delivered. Everyone will contribute – from blog entries, to phone-cam images, to video reports, to full investigations. Many people will get paid to contribute by Googlezon (which will be a fusion between google and amazon). It was interesting to watch this thought provoking prediction of a not so far away future. You can also see the updated version (2015), which is basically the same movie with a few updates.