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Rob Beer

Visual Guru

Joined: 19 Jun 2004

Posts: 55

Location: The Forum, Fargo-Moorhead

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:41 pm

maybe some of you have seen this... Interesting predictions:
http://www.letitblog.com/epic/
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Rich Boudet

Contributing editor

Joined: 10 Mar 2004

Posts: 194

Location: Seattle WA

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:01 pm

So Google-SkyNet goes online in 2007.
Good to know. I'll start packing guns in coffins.
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scottk

Contributing editor

Joined: 06 Aug 2004

Posts: 116

Location: Chicago Tribune RedEye

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:33 pm

Well, first off great Web design on that.

Second, I'm worried about the future of newspapers, but I'll cross that example off my list.

And third, there's no way in the world all that will unfold without Apple. Just not possible.

Kilometer31

Maestro

Joined: 11 May 2004

Posts: 574

Location: San Antonio Express-News

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:03 pm

That's just friggin' spooky.

It was really convincing right up until the phrase "Googlezon" was coined. They'll be more clever than that.

scottk

Contributing editor

Joined: 06 Aug 2004

Posts: 116

Location: Chicago Tribune RedEye

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:07 pm

Kilometer31 wrote::

It was really convincing right up until the phrase "Googlezon" was coined. They'll be more clever than that.

I was going to write that and then just forgot! I saw it and I was like ..."Googlezon?" I mean, for all that creativity there just had to be something better. And remember, just because two big companies merge, it doesn't mean they share names. It's not going to be K-Sears.

Amanda Raymond

Tiki Lounger

Joined: 23 Sep 2004

Posts: 10

Location: Tacoma, WA

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:08 pm

Rob Beer wrote::

maybe some of you have seen this... Interesting predictions:
http://www.letitblog.com/epic/

Yes, it is, in fact, the dread duo, Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan
http://snarkmarket.com/blog/

Nice work, guys. Creepy. But nice.

John Zhu

Maestro

Joined: 12 May 2004

Posts: 275

Location: Durham, NC

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:31 pm

That was pretty cool, and yeah, a bit spooky. Too bad they forgot to take into account that anything that has as big an audience as EPIC supposedly does must invariably appeal to the lowest common denominator, and as long as that level includes people who don't even know how to hook up a computer after they take it out of the box, newspapers will be safe, no matter how far technology will have come in 10 years. Was it Chris Rock who said, "You know how we all thought that by the year 2000, everything was going to be all hi-tech like The Jetsons? It ain't even The Jeffersons." (yeah I know, I'm quoting a true sage here. But hey, it fits)
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Rob Beer

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Joined: 19 Jun 2004

Posts: 55

Location: The Forum, Fargo-Moorhead

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:37 pm

True. I thought back in the '80s that by the year 2000 we'd have those flying cars and have the ability to zap ourselves to another location (Star Trek-ish). Heck, our vehicles are still gulping gas and I haven't gotten out of my chair all day. If this timeframe continues, epic won't roll out till 2090. Epic sounds a lot like the Enquirer, a whole lotta news but nothing really is believable. Thank goodness for good journalists these days and into the future.
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charles apple

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Joined: 09 Mar 2004

Posts: 3734

Location: Norfolk, Virginia

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:01 pm

scottk wrote::

...And third, there's no way in the world all that will unfold without Apple. Just not possible.

Thanks, Scott!

Um... You were talking about me, right?
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robschneider

Contributing editor

Joined: 18 Mar 2004

Posts: 212

Location: Dallas Morning News

Posted:
Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:54 pm

Googlezon is PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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