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Microsoft Shows What The Future Will Look Like.

DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
edited October 2011 in Buddhism Today

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  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    so basically if you do not buy certain products, then the future of 'tomorrow' is unaccessable? Looks like I am screwed then, I still have a fone without a colour screen :p
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    so basically if you do not buy certain products, then the future of 'tomorrow' is unaccessable? Looks like I am screwed then, I still have a fone without a colour screen :p
    :( Crazy stuff.
    Thanks for watching and commenting!
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    lol, it all looks marvelous and amazing, but I personally do not feel like trying to keep up with the world in that sense. But, if it happens that the world won't allow it, that you have to have a certain type of phone or gadget to interact with your surroundings, that is when I check out basically :)
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    lol, it all looks marvelous and amazing, but I personally do not feel like trying to keep up with the world in that sense. But, if it happens that the world won't allow it, that you have to have a certain type of phone or gadget to interact with your surroundings, that is when I check out basically :)
    Lol!
    Same here:)
    Even though I got an Android, but it's definitely worth it.
    I cut out my laptop and my Xbox.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    I have my laptop so I can keep in touch wih family and people back at home. Apart from that, my phone which is something from 'back in the day'. No TV or even a fridge for that matter lol. To each their own.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    No thanks.
  • MindGateMindGate United States Veteran
    edited October 2011
    MindGate shows what the future will look like.

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  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    The same as the past?? :confused:
  • MindGateMindGate United States Veteran
    The same as the past?? :confused:
    This comment is awesome.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    One definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior while expecting a different outcome. History could thus be defined as insanity.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    insanity or ignorance, where do you draw the line? The future can wait anyways, I am in no hurry :)
  • jupitermadcatjupitermadcat
    Sweet I'm there!
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    edited October 2011
    To me that "Microsoft" future looks lame, a lot of the "new" technologies shown (that are actually not new) in the video look a lot slower and cumbersome for the user, nowhere near as efficient as the good old mouse and keyboard in my opinion, though I should admit I have never liked touch screens.

    Plus everyone knows that If they want to see what the future looks they don't believe a Microsoft advert, they just need to watch Star Trek right ? :p (cant wait for the teleport to be invented, beam me up scotty !! :D )


  • DaozenDaozen Veteran
    edited October 2011
    One definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior while expecting a different outcome. History could thus be defined as insanity.
    Reminds me of the old quote: The only thing we learn from history, is that we don't learn from history.

  • CinorjerCinorjer Veteran
    It amazes me how spectacularly wrong people get predictions of the future, and that's from someone raised on science fiction. For instance, when I was in the USAF, we saw movies predicting the future of fighter planes, showing a totally wicked mockup of billion dollar planes that responded to voice commands from a pilot and where all the dials and information were projected into his helmet visor instead of crammed into the cockpit. Cool!

    Except the real future turned out to be eliminating the pilot entirely, not spending a trillion dollars on planes, and instead handing out cheap attack drones controlled by a pimple-faced kid expert on computer games, something unthinkable to the military back then. Anyone who tried to tell the people invested in visions of Star Wars type fighters that the actual human was the easiest thing to be replaced using existing technology would be ignored.

    So back then we were also presented with a shining future of a "paperless office" and working from anywhere while shuffling information back and forth. I notice the offices in the promo still cling to that vision. The real future turned out to be eliminating the jobs and offices entirely.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    And yet we're using more paper than at any time in history... :)
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    edited October 2011
    "Commander Data? Make it so"

    "Seize the time, Meribor. Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again" -- Picard (The Inner Light)
  • ArjquadArjquad Veteran
    If this is the future, I can not wait. I fell in love with holographic screens since the first moment I saw them. But I feel like we have alot of that technology already. For example the small rectangular screen is just like a modern smart phone just without a border or case.
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