Here is the latest instalment in Microsoft’s ongoing “Future Vision” series of videos… This time, depicting how technology will increase productivity in your life. It kind of reminds me of the Future of Screen Technology video from this time last year.
The video takes us on a highly futuristic journey, but one that is somewhat believable at the rate technology is progressing, still, I’m thinking this level of super digital world is a good 20+ years off… What do you guys think? Predictions? And will the world ever actually be like this?
They should stop publicly dreaming about the future, and start building it.
Not as far off as maybe we think. There was a great post on the “5th screen” on Technology Review. Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon have created a device called OmniTouch that can turn any surface into an interactive touch screen – your palm, your notebook (as in lined paper notebook), a wall…it’s just starting to get really really interesting: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38933/?mod=chfeatured
And it’s going to happen much faster than we realize.
There is no doubt the world will be like this and even more advanced, this tech will be at our fingertips before we know it!
Why does the future always have to look as if people have entirely stopped functioning normally? I never get why slightly more sophisticated screen technology also means there’s no dirt, steam, sweat, coffee rings, crumbs, wrinkled clothing, poor people or imperfections of any kind.
Ridiculous.
haha. Tim, my thoughts exactly…!
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Ok so discarding the naff music which creates a world of emotionally disconnected people, it all seems pretty believable.
But really how has this shown us anything different to what we saw in something like say, Minority Report?
South Africa drives on the left – so her car is driving on the wrong side of the road isn’t it?
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The truth of technology growth is that most commercial companies have designs and prototypes for technology up to 10 years in advance of the current models. New developements are released in stages to maximise the profit from a particular innovation or feature.
Nothing on this presentation surprised me, the only thing that I can hope is that in this future world we have found a way to progress as a species without damaging the planet.
The company that actually makes ‘green’ engines commercially effective will go a long way to achieving this.
Where’s the re-invented keyboard? There are better ways to insert data than a layout invented 150 years ago to slow typists down. Seems that microsoft does not have the imaginative capacity to take things further.
aside from the 3D holographic projection. i think most of these stuff can be realized in less than 10 years from now.