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.

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]

Originally Posted by Flexin

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.

[Apoc]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Apoc

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.

[fatbuckRTO]

Originally Posted by Apoc

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.

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by 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.

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!

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by derf

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