Googlezon and Epic 2014/15
Last Friday I was in Expomanagement here in Buenos Aires, and during a presentation of Peter Sealey he showed part of the video “Epic 2014”, about the future of Internet and media. The video shows a very interesting and creative theory about the future of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and the New York Times. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it now if you don’t want to be biased by my following comments, and see if you have the same thoughts I had…
After watching it, these are some of the ideas that came to my mind:
1- Is that the future of Internet and media? Well…who knows… But I think the video is a little bit simplistic. It doesn’t say anything about Yahoo, Ebay, Wal Mart, AOL, Linux, and other organizations that should be present in the scenario. I like the video, but I think it could be improved with a higher degree of deepness and development.
2- It seems to me that Googlezon is shown almost as a monopoly. In this sense, another question that appears is…How far will fusions and acquisitions go in the fields of Internet and media? For what I have seen, people don’t like monopolies (Think about Microsoft and Linux for example).
3- “…Googlezon finally checkmates Microsoft?”…Is that so simple? I don’t know…
4- I think that the New York Times wouldn’t be alone in an eventual legal battle against Googlezon. At least other important newspapers and media companies would be in its team.
5- In the years to come, China, India, and Europe, might be important enough to appear in the video.
6- “Epic 2015” has an additional minute of content in the end. Again, it adds an interesting idea but not totally well developed.
I also recommend reading the story about the creation of the video.
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