Epic 2014 - flash vid on potential future of internet news

[solypsist]

http://www.idorosen.com/mirrors/robinsloan.com/epic/

This is a flash animation of googles role in 2014. It contains the story of googles activities between now and 2014.

..et alors, je vous presente "Teh EPIC 2004"

[Husar]

Sounds scary to me, I want to meet more people in real life, not on some stupid web service.
I use Google to search(not exclusively) and Gmail to mail(also not exclusively), first time I heard of friendster and some of the other services(except Amazon) mentioned was this week.

[Reverend Joe]

Won't happen. Google is close to imploding as it is; as soon as people wake up and realise Google cannot produce any material results, the whole facade will come crashing down.

And if it does happen: ever read "Farenheit 451"?

I'm buying a typewriter.

[Divinus Arma]

Snore. It's pretty limited in its vision.

Now should they have included ECommerce, Mcommerce, and revolutions in B2B that these offer, I may have raised an eyebrow. The power of the internet is not just in information exchange and brokering, but in facilitating business processes. In fact, the effects of ecommerce on business processes are only barely beginning to be felt.

For example, have you ever heard of RFID? Walmart is testing it out for shipping tracking. It's a tiny chip that acts as a wireless GPS based on reception stations. These reception stations then trnasmit information via the internet through secure servers enabling logistics managers, inventory controllers, and sales managers to track the movement of all crates across the country. Sounds like no big deal, but the big deal is in unit individualized RFID. Applied to replace UPCs, these would store far more information and be more stable then a cruddy UPC. Now mix RFIDs with credit cards and digital currency. Remember the thread on e-gold?

Point is this: Imagine walking into a store and walking out with whatever you want and never having to check out or wait in line again. The inidividual unit RFIDs register the second you leave the store, synch with your RFID cedit card, which then links through a wireless internet hub and automatically charges you for everything you walked out with. Make your xmas shopping go easier? No more lines anywhere in retail? Thats true MCommerce. Lets say you want something a little bigger, but you don't want to carry it. Your blackberry synchs up to the RFID, makes the purchase and then you make delivery arrangements either to your vehicle or to your home. Don't want to meet the store clerk at your car? No problem. How about internet synched keyless entry with real time video transmitted from your vehicle to your palm pilot or blackberry? Watch the clerk step up to your car, let him in, and watch him put the goods in your vehicle for you. Now lock the car again.

This epic concept is shortsighted at best. We will be living in a digital wireless grid where everything is interconnected. Information on demand, commerce on demand, media on demand, work from anywhere, supervise from anywhere, teleconference anywhere, buy anything at any moment from any place and rest assured that a dealer network will get you what you want where you want it within the hour.

Prepare to really plug in. Us old folks watching the transition may struggle to adapt. We're worried about things like privacy and individual rights. Watch our children grow up in a world where all this already taken place. They will leave us in the dust.