THE VIDEO SHELF · future of media
Epic 2014
Epic 2014 is a short science-fiction film that imagines the media landscape merging into a personalized, computer-generated news service. It is a fictional history of 'Googlezon' and the decline of traditional newspapers.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN returns to it as an uncannily prescient prediction of tech consolidation and AI-written, personalized news.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- jessanmur
- Topic
- future of media
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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this was predicted in the very influential epic 2014 video in 02004 [VIDEO] (the original is flash and has thus been consigned to the memory hole, so we are left with this poor-quality conversion) 36": 'however, the press as you know it has ceased to …
kragen on Hacker News · 2023-12
In NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instancesDoes anyone else remember Epic 2014? It was a video made years ago that speculated about the future of the internet and media, with the end game being personalized news written by a computer. The timeline is off but the brand names are mostly the …
duckmysick on Hacker News · 2026-04
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Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.