Futuristic scenaria for BBC Interactive

Matt Jones, a very sharp application designer at the BBC, has been noodling around with futuristic scenaria, in the forms of rpedictions and narratives about what his users will look like in the face of those predictions.

ocial pressures to watch the latest seasons of Charmed, Buffy and Angel combine with file-sharing apps such as Kazaa to mean that many 15-24 year olds have watched entire seasons from the US on their PCs or Burned VCDs before they are shown on satellite pay TV or the much later free-to-air...

A "Social Scheduling" scenario as shown above could see p2p filesharing apps such as Bittorrent (which increases in efficiency with each concurrent user) thrive in the creation of ultralocal, and/or ultratribal media channels.

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