EPIC 2014 - ZEFRANK.COM

zero · 01-28-2005, 04:20 PM

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in the year 2014, the new york times has gone offline. the fourth estate's fortunes have waned. what happened to the news? and what is EPIC?

it could happen

trisherina · 01-28-2005, 04:44 PM

I have long supposed that what people really want, at base, is to be known: anticipated, understood, recognized, validated. I'm not sure if it would be more satisfying coming from Googlezon, or another human being. For lots of people today it's enough if it comes from a dog, done convincingly enough. It's conceivable.

lapietra · 01-28-2005, 07:14 PM

This eventuality is beginning to be discussed in other venues - the fact that information is now already being distributed by many sources other than the "trusted" vehicles of television, radio and the giant news corporations... We've already begun to question the validity of the news we receive from even these sources. It seems (one hopes) that before something like Epic happens, there will be something in place to gauge the worth of the information being distributed. Hard to know what that would be, though...

01-28-2005, 04:20 PM	#1
zero ª ★ ª Join Date: May 2004 Location: lª m°°n Posts: 13,853	EPIC 2014 . ° - flash 8mins - sfw in the year 2014, the new york times has gone offline. the fourth estate's fortunes have waned. what happened to the news? and what is EPIC? it could happen

01-28-2005, 04:44 PM	#2
trisherina meretricious dilettante Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,068	I have long supposed that what people really want, at base, is to be known: anticipated, understood, recognized, validated. I'm not sure if it would be more satisfying coming from Googlezon, or another human being. For lots of people today it's enough if it comes from a dog, done convincingly enough. It's conceivable. __________________ Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -- Annie Dillard

01-28-2005, 07:14 PM	#3
lapietra half baked Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: just ducky Posts: 12,078	This eventuality is beginning to be discussed in other venues - the fact that information is now already being distributed by many sources other than the "trusted" vehicles of television, radio and the giant news corporations... We've already begun to question the validity of the news we receive from even these sources. It seems (one hopes) that before something like Epic happens, there will be something in place to gauge the worth of the information being distributed. Hard to know what that would be, though... __________________ “As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.” ~ Mel Brooks

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