Microsoft’s five minute video on what the year 2019 will look like is pretty goddamn amazing. I want to live in this world. GIVE IT TO ME NOW.
The clip was shown at Wharton Business Technology Conference and it’s called 2019. My own enthusiasm aside, it looks like Microsoft’s interpolating various research technologies like Surface and who-the-hell-knows-what else into showing surfaces that can be manipulated, electronic paper, crazy video mobile phones, touchscreen/remote-control walls and amazing handheld wands. As Arthur C. Clarke says, “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” and this shit is magic.
Hit the link to see the entire 5 minutes and get your own e-boner. [I Started Something via Venture Beat]
Nathan
March 3, 2009 at 8:51 AM
I wanna live in this world now too dammit!!!
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March 3, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Where’s the BSOD?
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March 3, 2009 at 4:12 PM
we could probably be there already if we stopped fighting with people over religion & resources
Report Permalinkwe recreate the first few moments of the beginning of the universe in particle colliders, yet we still read news”paper” & carry more cards in our wallets than we are capable of holding
stab
March 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Bah…we saw all this in ‘Minority Report’.
Gimme more ‘steam punk’ like Bioshock!
Seriously, because technology is not my religion, I look at this realise that the world will still be full of atrocities, fear and hardship regardless of how ‘wow’ the technology is.
Just gimme a biro that works would ya?
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