Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Future History: Good, Bad or Indifferent?

A cartoon in Mad magazine (I think---no source to depend on for this) once offered the observation, "History is bunk, the present stinks, and even the future ain't what it used to be."

From the amount of mail I've received about it, the hit of the ACRL conference must have been the presentation that included the infamous Google/Amazon video. This short piece is a documentary putatively made in 2014 by the "Museuem of Media History" about the history of the news business. It was masterfully done by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson.

Watch the eight minute video, and then please come back here and tell me: in your opinion, is this a utopia, a dystopia, or something else entirely?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I loved this "documentary". It offered a chillingly realistic scenario for the future of the information age.