[ICTs-and-Society] EPIC and googlezon

[Christian Fuchs]

From: Megan Boler <megan.boler at utoronto.ca>

A video highly pertinent to Christian's apt discussion of Google's new 
"contradictory" privacy policy...this "sci-fi" video (good for teaching 
btw)  went viral 'way back' in 2004  before YouTube, spot on regarding 
an envisioned "googlezon"....(we interviewed him in 2006 and i recall 
one of the videomakers, robin sloan, said the video was originally a 
powerpoint talk:). He and Matt's ( the video co-producer's) dayjob 
included educating librarians about things digital, and their motivation 
for producing these ideas was to try to convey to all generations of 
librarians, how dramatic the shift to the digital. many of you will have 
seen this

i suppose this now seems relatively credulous and like 'real life' for 
students now, compared to when we showed this to audiences in 2006 and 
it still seemed (to many) like a distant dystopia.

http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

Megan
www.meganboler.net