Googlezon: Fact or Fiction?

Googlezon EPIC2014 is a video created in 2004 that depicts a possible future for the Internet. It is based on the assumption that Google and Amazon will team up to create Googlezon that will overtake our media and change not just journalism but everyone's life. The video ends in 2014 when EPIC (Evolving Personalized Information Construct) is created where people receive what they want and need from the web while also contributing to it.

Apart from how creepy the Googlezon EPIC2014 video can be, watching it raises many questions. Are we moving towards this type of future? Is the media going to be made up of computerized stories? Do we still need journalists?

These are pretty important questions for a journalism student to be asking. There is no doubt that the Internet has created so many opportunities and made it easier for all different people to become journalists. All you need to do it pick up a computer, create a blog, write, and get your name out there. All my professors are telling me to do this and I know that although I am going to school for it, anyone can be a journalist. Freelance writing is the new form of journalism on the web. However, the quality of writing, good fact checking and sourcing is still necessary and will definitely deter a lot of people from becoming reporters.

"EPIC is what we wanted. Is is what we chose."-Googlezon EPIC2014 video

Who knows if this futuistic idea will ever be a reality. It is creepy to think that we are moving towards these futures that we used to only see movies. Only time will tell but for now I take comfort in knwoing that after 5 years, Googlezon predictions are not falling togther like the video said.