Thoughts?

The Future: 10 years behind schedule.
Liking the harry potter pictures.

I've had days made of glass... they were fun at the time but I regret them now.

Oh, the future. Sure, I like it. It's inevitable as rain.

Whoa whoa whoa, hold on a second we don't have flying cars yet!
Give us flying cars and THEN you can start putting pointless, garish interfaces on every flat surface you can find!
Except for my flat surfaces, because I'd rather spend that money on flying cars than a useless bathroom-mirror-interface that'll just get covered with toothpaste-spittle anyways.

We better have invented nuclear fusion, seeing that video...

So in the near future I'll have a husband and two kids and have to check my twitter and facebook in the mirror while I brush my teeth? Paaaaass.

But seriously some of the design ideas are pretty cool. I dooo like the range they had, cleaning the knobs and dials and burners and stuff is lame.

I actually already know a guy who is really into custom-building the sorts of displays that car has, though they're mostly still like calculator-style LCD or 8-bit LED. I'm not convinced that we need to put /more/ glass inside a car though.

The contact docking idea is pretty sweet though, I have to admit. There already are chargers that don't need to plug in, so I imagine that actual I/O wouldn't be an impossible leap from there. Though it's a good way to humiliate yourself publicly if you're sexting and accidentally set your phone down on a projector table.

Also they went with the cardinal sin of futuristic displays. Nobody frigging wants to stand and have to hold their arms up and wave their hands around for extended periods of time to operate a vertical interface. Talk to any puppeteer; that is a lot more difficult than it looks.

So in short, some pretty nifty ideas but I question the execution.

I'm with Flirb though. This is cool, but where my flying cars at?

By the way, we've got a hob like that. Save, you know, the needless flash and screens and so on. It's easy to wipe, but gas heats up stuff quicker.

oh dear god that looks hideous. We are far too rapidly approaching a point where we won't be able to look in any direction without moving flashing images everywhere. Every time I go to London there are more video adverts on the tube and it's just distracting, headache-inducing visual noise. Shouldn't the times when we're not sat at computers be when our eyes and brains can have a break?

Yes, I am a luddite when it comes to this issue. I don't care. Shut up, your opinion is wrong.

There's no other cars on the road in the future... where do I sign up?

Maeve that's an excellent point as well. I was just talking with someone the other day about how we have limited sensory input buffers [eg the famous report about Powerpoint five or so years back], so flooding those with flair all the time would probably be ultimately detrimental to our ability to function efficiently.

It's not even a leap, it's already here, and has been for a while. It's only now starting to be put into phones, but it has existed for a long time. It's called Near-field communication (NFC). The latest Nexus S phone has it. It was probably one of the most realistic things in the video, lol.



Definitely. Steve Jobs actually had a great point at the last keynote he had. He was talking about Macbooks, and explained why they wouldn't have touchscreens. It's because, well, it's damn uncomfortable to use on a vertical display for any length of time.

Also, another problem with that display stuff, is that they always show people having fun, flicking things around, making decisions. But who wrote that software? That's a LOT of frickin' software to power all of that, a lot of graphics design, and a lot of it seems extremely specialized. Like who wrote their custom UI interface just for clothing design managers?

Not to mention, it always seems like people are able to work just by flicking crap around. Does no one write anything in the future (and I mean more than "ok yes")? How does this help anyone in more manual-labor style jobs? It seems like it'd only really get used by a very small population.

Nice video, but I doubt it's an accurate depiction of the future. Especially the road signs. I mean, come on. There's got to be millions of those things.

Maybe not all of them, or even a lot of them. However on the interstates in Colorado at least, there are already a network of Great Big Clunky LED Boards advising of wind conditions, terrorist attacks, ice, not to drive drunk, or whatever the MOTD happens to be.

Also, if you set for phone down on one of these in a public setting like a department store you're opening up the possibility of forgetting it there or having it stolen. It brings to mind ATMs: If they give you your card after giving you the cash, you might absent-mindedly take the cash and leave. That's why they usually give your card back before giving you the cash.




I don't remember this! I wish to know more.

This is a quick overview but if you search around there are tons of links about it.
http://www.beyondbullets.com/2004/06/the_science_of_.html

I hope to have a smart innovative futuristic wife like Jennifer someday.

Though really, where are the power supplies on the things like the roll-up glass screen? And can you imagine the distribution of porn in a world like that? I imagine after a point of that everyone would be to distracted to do much else, thus the fall of human kind. In a orgasmic flashy world wide lan-orgy.

(If this appears as nonsense, please ignore it. I haven't slept in over 24 hours.)

Well we've already established that things can be powered and/or recharged via inductance so I'd imagine given a sensible infrastructure that would be sufficient.