Non-Profit Technical Information & Support Blog: Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050

Ran across this in the Read/WriteWeb blog

Written by Richard MacManus / June 14, 2007 / 23 comments
Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years. In the short movie, Google, Amazon.com and Second Life are the big winners - with Google buying Microsoft, Amazon buying Yahoo, and Second Life becoming the dominant virtual world.

The core future media concept is the Agav - an Agent-Avatar, which "finds information, people, places in the virtual worlds". Here's where it gets interesting. In 2022 Google launches Prometeus, the Agav standard interface, and Amazon creates 'Place' - a company that replicates reality. Then in 2027 Second Life evolves into 'Spirit', where people can become who they want to, via avatars. And then finally, the 'Google overloads' moment - when Prometeus buys Place and Spirit! By 2050 virtual life is the world's biggest market and Google/Prometeus reigns supreme.

Of course it may turn out different, but the video does make you think about where the Web is headed. Check it out...

Source: readwriteweb.com

This reminds me of an earlier video "Epic 2015", that covers similar territory, I commented there that "I came across this a couple of years back and I've
never been able to tell if this is the end of the world or the
beginning, complete fascism or absolute freedom." and I'd have to say feelings have not chnaged.