Microsoft Office Labs has created a cool video montage showing what they think technology might look like in 2019. Here’s their full series of “Envisioning” videos.
How will emerging technology improve our productivity in the years ahead? What opportunities will arise from evolving trends and global change? Microsoft has collaborated with customers, partners, and thought leaders across multiple disciplines to develop scenarios that explore how long-term trends, customer challenges, and emerging technologies might converge to improve our lives, both at work and home.
via ReadWriteWeb
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I was totally sure we’d have flying cars.
And schools will still only have blackboards and chalk. Seriously. I love this vision, but it’s the private sector that benefits, not public institutions, like schools, that benefit. I have to write many grants to see any money, ti get technology in my classroom.
And as for the digitized newspaper, though the technology does exist to do what the paper was doing in the ad, newspapers are a dying breed. I predict, most major papers will be gone by the end of the decade. I give the SF Comical, er, I mean, Chronicle, a month until their demise. Not that we’d be missing anything.
Who needs flying cars? We can meaningfully communicate instantly without even leaving our homes. You can go ahead and tweet that if you want. :)
I think the idea is that the you’d keep the same paper and refresh the content.
Cool animation. Rotoscope anyone?
You know, some of the stuff they were show was absolutely scary… and a bunch of the rest came from the iPhone ….
Somebody call Neil Stephenson. They’re ripping him off again. When all else fails, return to you’re dogeared copy of Diamond Age. Geez, no wonder his books are getting freaky…
Cool, sorry I got to go back at wasting my time making a simple HTML page display right in MS explorer.
This reminds me of Disney’s “Magic Highway USA:” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA
The floating grocery list is hilarious. Like people will really want the world around them to see all the personal items they buy.
The barking finger-paint dog is cute, and the auto translation in the air between the children is nice. Again though, do you want your private conversations to be seen floating in the air as if we were all Sims?
I hope I’m dead before the world looks like that. Long live telepathy, remote viewing, and the imagination!
Poor Microsoft. They’ve hired someone to create a beautiful aesthetic but they have no idea how to actually execute on the design. Or any design. At least they’ve met someone who can describe to them how it ought to look.