Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision
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Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision
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#2Remember the gorilla arm.
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#3Very cool look at how human computer interactions may look like. I especially liked to "co working" segment in which the woman walked into a studio, and transformed a blank drafting table into her personal environment.
I would personally feel better if future computing environments used open standards and be open source.
I know that companies like Microsoft, Apple, etc. have the resources to do the R&D and produce products, but I don't want to see competing incompatible systems slow progress.
I know it is a stretch to hope for, but this is why I favor open web standards to apps, even on small devices.
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#4I'd love to know why companies even waste time making videos like these anymore. Looking back at past stuff (like the 'smart home' from Microsoft in the mid 90's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V_0xDUg0h0) it's pretty hilarious how out of touch they are with reality.
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#5Remember the gorilla arm. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
Something like gorilla-arm might be good thing: Humans probably aren't supposed to be sitting in front of a computer for hours at a time; gorilla-arm is just a non-dismissible signal that it's time to take a break.
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#6It seems like most of the things demonstrated are changes to the gloss of interfaces, higher resolution etc... I don't see radical "productivity" improvements - eg. making input significantly easier through BCI. The touch options they show are a scaled versions (larger/more ubiquitous) of what we have now with stylus/touch input and wearables. For example, why is the big drafting table radically better than a tablet or wacom drawing pad and large monitor today? Saying nothing of the holographic 3D table without any HMD or the other "sci-fi" type stuff shown.
I guess to me this looks nice and flashy and all but not really a breakthrough in ergonomics. Maybe I missed that somewhere.
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#7Remember the gorilla arm. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
Also: glare-free screens. I wonder how they solved that one?
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#8Remember the gorilla arm. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
Yeah, looking at this, I got the feeling that it was more "How Hollywood wants the future to look" (see Minority Report) vs. what will actually be useful and, most importantly, economical.
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#9I'd love to know why companies even waste time making videos like these anymore. Looking back at past stuff (like the 'smart home' from Microsoft in the mid 90's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V_0xDUg0h0 ) it's pretty hilarious how out of touch they are with reality.
Think of how expensive all that stuff would be. And all the maintenance of learning it, upgrading it, and powering it...
And for what, really? There's a reason video phones are not used today: it's unnecessary waste (in time and bandwidth) -- and also privacy violating -- when a text message will do just fine.
Re: Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision
#10I'd love to know why companies even waste time making videos like these anymore. Looking back at past stuff (like the 'smart home' from Microsoft in the mid 90's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V_0xDUg0h0 ) it's pretty hilarious how out of touch they are with reality.
Science fiction authors change the world with ideas (having ideas of how the world could be). Visualising/putting-in-words what you think the future could look like contributes to what the future will look like. I guess companies know about this and want to get ahead of the curve.