Future of media: A projection toward 2050

By  | 6/15/2007 | Filed under: Technology

Echoing the spirit of Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson’s EPIC 2014, Casaleggio Associati has produced a short video on the Future of Media, where Google, Amazon and Second Life dominate the media world through business acquisitions, reality replication in virtual spaces, and reality design.

Does the Eye of Osiris at the end of the video suggest the rise of a New World Order via transformations in media production and consumption?

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Dr. John Moravec is a faculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and the Innovation Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs at the University of Minnesota. He is the principal of Education Futures LLC; a co-founder of the Horizon Forum, a roundtable on the future of education at all levels; and is the editor of Education Futures. He can be emailed at john@educationfutures.com.

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2 Responses to Future of media: A projection toward 2050

  1. Dave LaMorte on 6/17/2007 at 12:53

    Thanks a lot for the link. I think you are all thinking way farther into the future than I am. Keep up the good work.

    -Dave

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