EPIC 2014
In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline.
The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned.
What happened to the news?
And what is EPIC?

This is a very interesting and entertaining speculative fiction bit. It
requires Flash. It is 8 minutes long. Make sure you have the full 8
minutes undisturbed, the amount of info is fairly large and it is worth
listening to! The topic is the future of media.

Note that a lot of the ideas have been around for a while (esp. in the
context of the Media Lab's research at MIT) but....