They manage to weave in themes of media consolidation, Google and Amazon vs. Microsoft, the impact of blogs, identity, personalization, social networking, and even grid computing. It's definitely worth a watch -- or two. Very nicely done -- even if you don't buy the vision. The piece reminded me of the movie Network -- whose cautionary tale is alas where we are today.
Over the last few years I've given a talk on "Yesterday's Tomorrows: the Challenge of Predicting Internet Futures." These folks did something cool -- they propose what the future might be like, looking back from 2014. Call it "Tomorrow's Yesterdays."
See: http://www.lightover.com/epic/
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