Googlezon

This post is concerning the video on the hypothetical future of news reporting online un terms of personalisation and user generated content

• 1998 - Google is created
• 2002 - google is equiped with new google news which is edited by the Web
• 2004 - Sony creates the first Internet-based newspaper
• 2006 - Google combines all of its sevices and functions to creat one large media grid
• 2007 - MSN Newsbotster becomes actually cheaper than buying a newspaper
• 2008 - Google and Amazon combiune to create Googlezon - a system which creates personal news and advertisements for each individual user. This form of personalised news meant there was a different and new story for each new user.
• 2011 - New York Times attemepts to sue Googlezon for copyright infringements

- EPIC is launched by Googlezon - Evolving

Personalised

Information

Construct

- Everyone posts individual blog articles, photos, viseo footage etc.

• 2014 - New York Times is reduced to a print-only newsletter for the elite and elderly

At the end of this period , the press is obsolete and the general public are the sole contributers to news coverage

What do i think about this? - due to the fact that this future is extremely unlikely and its commentry provided by the video is not dis-similar to the description of the rise of the machines in the Terminator films, I do not believe that the infromation conveyed can be taken all that seriously. Even if the news coverage provided by the Internet reaches this level of sophistication by 2014, I find it very hard to believe that people will cease buying newspapers. However, were this to occur, I suppose it would not be so terrible as there would no longer be anything known as "old news". News coverage at its current level is constantly refreshed and updated and so were Internet coverage to become the primary source of news, at least people would always receive up-to-date bulletins. However, there is the disadvantage of bias; if news were to be personaly created by the public, there is very little chance of completely uninfluenced coverage as whoever posted the article would undoubtably put their own spin on it. This is one thing that the print-only New York Times newsletter would have over the new EPIC system; accurate and unbiased news coverage.