The EPIC death of traditional media?

JSB originally introduced me to an interesting video produced by Robin Sloan that has been circulating on the Internet.  It purports to be a history of the media produced in the year 2014 and provides an interesting scenario of how traditional media gets trounced by the growth of a major new competitor Googlezon (you guessed it, arising from the merger of Google and Amazon, which the video indicates will occur in 2008). The transcript of the narration on the video is available here.

The video ends on a somewhat worried note suggesting that the outcome could represent an undermining of democracy and ethics of media, but I’m not sure I share the concern.  The way I "read" the video, it is chronicling the transition, in words that JSB and I would use, from traditional push media to a very different form of pull media. I believe that this transition will result in much more democratic media forms.  One possible reason for the disconnect is that the makers of the video seem to assume that this transition will occur in isolation.  JSB and I maintain that this is merely one element in a much broader transition that will also change the identities that we assume and the ways we participate with each other.  When you put the media transition into this broader context, there is much more ground for optimism about the outcomes.