"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."
~REM~
It's a brave new world out there, and this is only the beginning. Of course, I couldn't be more thrilled. This marks nothing short of a truly democratic social revolution. The implications for how we create social communities, political activism, governance, transnational security and cooperation etc. are staggering. Viva la Revolución!
As a piece of pop futurism, EPIC 2014 is both brilliant and brilliantly self-subverting (at once inevitable and preposterous). But what’s remarkable is how many of its ten-years-out predictions have already come true—if not materially, then de facto: the mass migration of everything to the Web, the explosion of blogging, the near-instant embrace of social media...
