Comments on: Microsoft Office Labs Video Montage of Future Technology in 2019

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:52:25 +0000

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.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:10:02 +0000

I hope I’m dead before the world looks like that. Long live telepathy, remote viewing, and the imagination!

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:07:21 +0000

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?

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:23:29 +0000

This reminds me of Disney’s “Magic Highway USA:” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA

By: Luca P

Luca P — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:17:03 +0000

Cool, sorry I got to go back at wasting my time making a simple HTML page display right in MS explorer.

By: Tracy Feldstein

Tracy Feldstein — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:37:40 +0000

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…

By: Larry Rose

Larry Rose — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:45:10 +0000

You know, some of the stuff they were show was absolutely scary… and a bunch of the rest came from the iPhone ….

By: jacob

jacob — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:52:06 +0000

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?

By: John Hell

John Hell — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:34:07 +0000

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.

By: adam jackson

adam jackson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:19:35 +0000

I was totally sure we’d have flying cars.