Epic 2014 The Video I wish i could embed this but I cannot. The link opens a new window. Hold on to your seat.
I’m pretty sure that’s Matt Thompson from Newsless.org narrating.
From the site: “If you like EPIC, and the ideas in it, you’ll probably like my site (Robin Sloan), Matt’s, and our blog (snarkmarket). Come say hello!”
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Guilty as charged. Did you see the 2015 version? The end is totally Twitter.
The 2014 video was something I watched a while ago when it came out.
It is sort of bizarre, I guess, but I think that’s exactly what people
who are thinking about new media need to be doing. Actually, the 2014
video doesn’t do enough. People are tracking failing media companies,
watching new modes ascend, wondering what will happen to journalism,
but people need to start working with some of these hypothetical
models. This means doing “Science Fiction,” in a way.
What happens when reporters can’t get paid? What happens to democracy?
People need to start talking about this, doing conditional proofs if
you will. The next twenty years will give us a conflict very much like
the conflict the federalists and democratic-republicans fought after
1800 in the many periodicals published at that time (Federalists in
Dissent (kerber) and Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson
(dowling) are good background). This was an argument over what
democracy is and what the role of the individual in a society is. The
interesting thing is that we don’t have print as a media to host the
battle. How will connected media change the terms?