Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050

Ran across this in the Read/WriteWeb blog

Written by Richard MacManus / June 14, 2007 / 23 comments

Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years. In the short movie, Google, Amazon.com and Second Life are the big winners - with Google buying Microsoft, Amazon buying Yahoo, and Second Life becoming the dominant virtual world.

The core future media concept is the Agav - an Agent-Avatar, which "finds information, people, places in the virtual worlds". Here's where it gets interesting. In 2022 Google launches Prometeus, the Agav standard interface, and Amazon creates 'Place' - a company that replicates reality. Then in 2027 Second Life evolves into 'Spirit', where people can become who they want to, via avatars. And then finally, the 'Google overloads' moment - when Prometeus buys Place and Spirit! By 2050 virtual life is the world's biggest market and Google/Prometeus reigns supreme.

Of course it may turn out different, but the video does make you think about where the Web is headed. Check it out...

Source: readwriteweb.com

This reminds me of an earlier video "Epic 2015", that covers similar territory, I commented there that "I came across this a couple of years back and I've
never been able to tell if this is the end of the world or the
beginning, complete fascism or absolute freedom." and I'd have to say feelings have not chnaged.

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Library clips :: Roundup : Googol Deskbar, WP-Offline, Click Comments, blogTV, Vyew :: June :: 2007

Library clips :: Roundup : Googol Deskbar, WP-Offline, Click Comments, blogTV, Vyew :: June :: 2007"
June 13, 2007
Roundup : Googol Deskbar, WP-Offline, Click Comments, blogTV, Vyew
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Nice roundup of tools and gadgets for Np-Tech

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communities

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communities

from Library clips by Johnt

There’s a lot of talk about networks and communities, I posted on blog communties or networks not long ago…Collaboration Loop has a comparison.

As often put networks are individual centric, whereas communities are a place, have a main topic, agenda, set members, moderated and they die out if members are not putting in effort.

Whereas networks are self evolving, may not be intentional (they can be parts making up a whole without perhaps even knowing their involvment), and they may de-evolve of no consequence.

Anyway, my post on Facebook got me thinking the way they incorprate communities and networks into the one ecosystem, whereas Google is scattered.

For instance Google have a startpage, they have a social network, and they have communities or groups.

These are all separate products and they still can be, but there could be an option to intergrate them like Facebook.

Notice that Facebook is a startpage or personal dashboard, and it’s also a social network as you can message and add friends (share stuff, keep updated), and you can also slice smaller networks by defining a region or a company or a school…you could come up with sub-networks by filtering on any piece of common data or parameter. Notice how this is still an individual centric network, no-one may even notice they are part of the “Australia” network, not knowing their profile and content is appearing under the Australia Network page.

Then they have groups around any topic, these you know about as you have to join, members and visitors take part in discussions, etc…without member or visitor input these groups or communities become ghost towns.

Whereas this doesn’t happen with a network, there is no trail left behind if a network fades away…in saying that if all the Australian Facebook people stopped using Facebook then there would be no Australia network and there would be dead profiles (that didn’t sound good, but you know what I mean).

Basically the network (the whole) only fades away as individuals (the parts) stop using their profile, so as long as people get personal benefit and thrive, you can see many networks depending on how you slice the data.

Anyway this post was more about personal dashboards, groups and networks being intertwined in the same ecosystem…hmmm, only thing missing is task collaboration, ala Foldera.

Source: libraryclips.blogsome.com

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Whether you live in Facebook or email, that is the question?

Whether you live in Facebook or email, that is the question?
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Facebook has become the new kid on the block for me already, first it was blogging, then it was bookmarking, then it was the tweeting darling, and now I’m knee deep into Facebook…infact now I can do most of everything in Facebook, it’s my social network and productivity dashboard.

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Communicating with the Web

NeoOffice & OpenOffice

via Google Reader: "May 5, 2007

Just what we need for the mixed environment office that wants to be fully open source.

"A followup to yesterday's post: NeoOffice is a FREE, fully-featured set
of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet,
presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. "

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