If you’ve used an iPhone, a GPS device or have seen the movie Minority Report there is probably very little in this video that will astound you. That said, it is still interesting to see all of the current technologies (touch screens, digital paper, see-through screens, large video walls, video screens and surfaces everywhere) being used together to create a vision for what Microsoft thinks communications technology could look like ten years out.
The video quality is excellent and you have to give Microsoft credit for making a bet (albeit a safe one) on what the future might look like. Very few companies would have the courage to do this for fear being ridiculed or guessing ‘wrong’.
I’m not sure if Gene Roddenberry predicted the future importance of the mobile phone in the 60′s or helped shaped the design of mobile equipment when he introduced the flip top ‘communicators’ in the early Star Trek series but it’s interesting to see how predictions can sometimes influence the shape of the future that they forecast.
I’d love to see Apple’s vison of the future – we’ll never get to see that though, they are probably too busy inventing it.
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