"Epic" Media

After watching the fictional future of the Epic movie and Michael Wesch's Web 2.0, the only thing I'm worried about is that I'll never really be able to imitate Chris McCandless and Henry David Thoreau.

Ignoring the bizarre omnipotent god sort of thing going on in the epic movie, I don't think there was anything spectacular or out of the ordinary in either. It's evident that technology is going to make media increasingly personalized and easier to obtain, which is primarily what I got out of them. The battles over becoming the next leader in news is what I'm most interested in. While I don't think that network news will ever get booted off the throne, or that the NY Times will get surpassed by any other written source, they'll definitely lose some viewers/subscribers, and have find new and more creative ways to relay information. But they've got so much revenue and popularity that I don't think any other source poses a serious threat.

As for the mergers between Amazon, Google, Ebay, Microsoft, etc., that were speculated about, I know I'm ignorant about how the corporate world works, and so I can't say if any of it is realistic or not. I just know that merging companies means the combining of ideas and products, and who wouldn't like the technological equivalent to the swiss army knife?

But really...if there's a day when you can't go out into nature without being found then I think we really need to rethink this whole technology thing.