Anyone old enough to remember EPIC 2014? It was a viral flash video, released in 2004, about the future of Google and news reporting. I imagine 2027 will age similarly well.
- Google buying TiVo is very funny, but ended up being accurate
- Google GRID is an interesting concept, but we did functionally get this with Google Drive
- MSN Newsbotster did end up happening, except it was Facebook circa ~2013+
- GoogleZon is very funny, given they both built this functionality separately
- Predicting summarized news is at least 13 years too early, but it's still correct
- NYT vs GoogleZon also remarkably prescient, though about 13 years too early as well
- EPIC pretty accurately predicts the TikTok and Twitter revenue share, though, again, about 12 years too early
- NYT still hasn't gone offline, and was bolstered by viewership during the first Trump term, and print subscriptions are the lowest they've ever been
Really great video - it does seem like they predicted 2024 more than 2014, where people unironically thought haitians were eating dogs and that food prices had gone up 200% because of what they saw on TikTok and elected a wannabe tyrant as a result