Hyper-evolution of the news

Blogging got you bugaboo? Curious about the net and the seemingly simultaneous decentrallization/monopolization of the news? A group calling itself The Museum of Media History has put out a fine prognostication in flash form (8 min). Amazon individualization meets IndyMedia meets Friendster meets Google. Multitudes working in oceanic free-market media economies. Lovely. And probably not too far off the mark, except for the Google-zon nonsense about the strip mining of news to create personalized bricolage news stories. This one certainly deserves the adjective "apocalicious."

On a similar note, Tom Englehardt of Tomdispatch.com has a nice piece on the prescience of science fiction.