Microsoft on your future

[derf]

http://www.microsoft.com/office/vision/

kind of a neat concept on the future of computing, and seems almost plausible

[Flexin]

6 minutes on computers in the future and not even a second of it showed porn. I call BS. If its true I want no part in it. :td:

Seems pretty cool. Looks like I will need to make more money. Things are going to be expensive with everything having a computer in it.

James

[LeeNetworX]

Seems pretty cool. Looks like I will need to make more money. Things are going to be expensive with everything having a computer in it.

James

Not true. As more computing power/storage/etc. moves to the cloud, less resources are required at the client end to receive/trasmit and present data to the user.

[Trip]

That is pretty damn cool, but I think we are a lot longer than 10 years away from glass panel only phones and tablets.

Apple has probably patented everything from that video already anyway.

[askmrjesus]

http://www.microsoft.com/office/vision/

kind of a neat concept on the future of computing, and seems almost plausible

Not clicking.

The last time Microsoft gave me the "Future of Computing" I was promised paper would become a thing of the past.

That was a dozen broken printers ago.

JC

[pauldun170]

In th spirit of flexing post, if there is no porn I shan't view he video

[Apoc]

That is pretty damn cool, but I think we are a lot longer than 10 years away from glass panel only phones and tablets.



Really? Go back and look where we were 10 years ago. And technology is is increasing at a faster pace now than it ever has. I think, with phones and tablets anyway, glass panel is less than 10 year away.

Those of us who are 30 and up really are living in a special time in Human history. We've got to see the all the changes that started with the home computer, and watch technology progress, while at the same time, we are old enough to remember what the world was like without all these new technologies.

We may not live long enough to see where it ends, but by the fuck, its been pretty interesting to be able to see where it all came from, and how what we once thought was impossible (smart phones for instance; who would have thought that was possible back when we were driving around with old motorola bag phones on the seat next to us), is now common.

Of course its possible that the rate tech changes and progresses may slow down drasticly in the near future, its far more plausible that the pace will only increase, and not only will we see those things in 10 years, in 20 we may be seeing things that we not only didnt think was possible, but werent even creative enough to imagine.

Then again, im still waiting for my hover board from back to the future.

[Particle Man]

Anyone remember the Discovery Channel show "Beyond 2000"? (later "Beyond Tomorrow") :D

[LeeNetworX]

Anyone remember the Discovery Channel show "Beyond 2000"? (later "Beyond Tomorrow") :D

Barely. Wasn't that when the Discovery Channel used to actually have shows that let you learn and discover new shit? Instead of watching reality show crap?

[Trip]

Really? Go back and look where we were 10 years ago. And technology is is increasing at a faster pace now than it ever has. I think, with phones and tablets anyway, glass panel is less than 10 year away.

Those of us who are 30 and up really are living in a special time in Human history. We've got to see the all the changes that started with the home computer, and watch technology progress, while at the same time, we are old enough to remember what the world was like without all these new technologies.

We may not live long enough to see where it ends, but by the fuck, its been pretty interesting to be able to see where it all came from, and how what we once thought was impossible (smart phones for instance; who would have thought that was possible back when we were driving around with old motorola bag phones on the seat next to us), is now common.

Of course its possible that the rate tech changes and progresses may slow down drasticly in the near future, its far more plausible that the pace will only increase, and not only will we see those things in 10 years, in 20 we may be seeing things that we not only didnt think was possible, but werent even creative enough to imagine.

Then again, im still waiting for my hover board from back to the future.

Yeah, an electrical engineer doesn't realize where we were 10 years ago... Yeah....I wouldn't understand the concepts and theory it would take to have a flat piece of glass without any visible circuitry... yeah....

Things will get a lot smaller, but I don't think we will have the technology to do that where it's actually cheap enough for all of us to use. Something like that is 20 years away if we can get there. Something else you have to think about is battery technology. It will take an enormous leap from where we have come to replace that piece of technology. Batteries are pretty much the thing that are holding us back in a lot of ways.

[Tmall]

Hard to wrap your head around something yo may not know or understand trip? Doubt that new tech could come out in a decade?

[Trip]

Hard to wrap your head around something yo may not know or understand trip? Doubt that new tech could come out in a decade?

I am familiar with nanotech. That's what it's going to take. Using cells/bacteria as electrical components. I doubt we will phones completely made of that in 10 years. That would require a huge leap in the rate we are developing tech right now.

[Particle Man]

Barely. Wasn't that when the Discovery Channel used to actually have shows that let you learn and discover new shit? Instead of watching reality show crap?

Pretty much

[Gas Man]

6 minutes on computers in the future and not even a second of it showed porn. I call BS. If its true I want no part in it. :td:

Seems pretty cool. Looks like I will need to make more money. Things are going to be expensive with everything having a computer in it.

James
This!

[Amorok]

Airplay mirroring. That video is already halfway here, but it's not Microsoft.

[Trip]

Airplay mirroring. That video is already halfway here, but it's not Microsoft.

And Microsoft has had desktop sharing for awhile... Think of this more as a hive mind instead of a sharing application like Airplay. All the computers are just like one big desktop. It's a lot different.

[fatbuckRTO]

Really? Go back and look where we were 10 years ago. And technology is is increasing at a faster pace now than it ever has. I think, with phones and tablets anyway, glass panel is less than 10 year away. Not familiar enough with glass panel to say, but I will say that most of the "new technology" from the past ten years isn't really new. Plasma screens and touch screens were around well before 2001. Computing speed is, of course, increasing exponentially as is has since the dawn of the microchip. But the cellular networks, flat screens, internet, smart phones, etc., that we know and love today are all just improvements on existing technologies from 10-20 years ago. In some cases it was just a question of expanding the infrastructure, which is not really a technological advance.

That said, glass panel or not, they also seemed to be showing interactive hologram technology. If we have that in 10 years, if ever, I'll be very surprised. Smoke reflections don't count.

[Papa_Complex]

I am familiar with nanotech. That's what it's going to take. Using cells/bacteria as electrical components. I doubt we will phones completely made of that in 10 years. That would require a huge leap in the rate we are developing tech right now.

Can virtually do it today, with just one tiny ASIC on the outside border.

[Trip]

Can virtually do it today, with just one tiny ASIC on the outside border.

Not if you want to use a cell phone radio and power the entire thing and run in depth apps. We are not yet to that stage. If Steve Jobs could of made the iphone a glass panel even at a premium, that shit would of been a glass panel.

[Papa_Complex]

Not if you want to use a cell phone radio and power the entire thing and run in depth apps. We are not yet to that stage. If Steve Jobs could of made the iphone a glass panel even at a premium, that shit would of been a glass panel.

Distributed computing, extended to distributed communications. The 'phone' only needs to be short range, potentially even obtaining power via induction, in order to access Bluetooth or WiFi based local area networking. Everything is done via IP6 including VOIP, texting, email, and video.

[Trip]

Distributed computing, extended to distributed communications. The 'phone' only needs to be short range, potentially even obtaining power via induction, in order to access Bluetooth or WiFi based local area networking. Everything is done via IP6 including VOIP, texting, email, and video.

Good luck building the entire new infrastructure in 10 years. We are further away than 10 years for that.

[Papa_Complex]

Good luck building the entire new infrastructure in 10 years. We are further away than 10 years for that.

You didn't say anything about infrastructure ;)

It could be done now, on a single building basis. We could do it on our campus, given that we already have WiFi, Voip, and virtual machine infrastructure. Ontario Hydro has WiFi all over the downtown core, so maybe 10 square miles of downtown Toronto could be fitted out.

It's how the internet got started, after all; universities co-opting ARPANET.

[Digifox]

I dont think that is 5-10 years away. Maybe more like 20.

For one youll need very small/powerful batteries, which our battaries are still pretty low tech.
Then youll need high tech displays probably led, that can also project off the screen. We just now got cheap/usable no glasses 3d screens.

And VERY small electronics. I think 45nm is standard for cpus and amd is working on like 20sum nm gpus. So 5-10 years from now i think it will be in reach but wont be avalible for another 5+ years

[Trip]

So here is how they are planning to do it. The glass is just that, glass. It's not the device. Projectors hidden everywhere to turn any surface into the device.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/death-keyboards-monitors-omnitouch-202115388.html

[Gas Man]

That's nuts... honestly!

[udman]

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

[Gas Man]

too much to read... even with pictures.

[Papa_Complex]

too much to read... even with pictures.

Coles Notes version: Electronic simulations of stuff don't feel the same.

[Particle Man]

Coles Notes version: Electronic simulations of stuff don't feel the same.

And: the more things change, the more they stay the same.