Comments on: Microsoft’s “2019” Video

By: janson

janson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:22:29 +0000

i’m gonna be thirteen soon so i can wait even if it means sixty years (:-P)

By: Melody

Melody — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:21:04 +0000

That’s just so amazing! It might not happen in 2019, but I am sure that it will come true! I am just so attracted to this kind of interactive media! I often think if the new Kindle is thin like paper and have the texture of paper, wouldn’t it be nice! For people who miss the old days, they can grasp info from TV and drop into the newspaper, which is a symbol of old days. The commercial is like Harry Potter for me. Seriously, I really look forward to that day!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:13:28 +0000

Ha. It’s always cool to watch these things, but I’d bet money that in 2019
1)We’ll still be typing on keyboards (tactile feedback).
2)We’ll still be printing stuff out on paper, especially stuff like boarding passes.
3)We’ll still primarily be using audio-only phones (only in sci-fi are people willing to answer their video phones right out of bed.
4)Teleconferencing in schools will still be prohibitively expensive, and more importantly, prohibitive to maintain (“Teacher! Bobby-Sue just scratched the screen with her pen!”, and teachers will still resent the surveillance possibilities).
5)We’ll still have very limited touch screens (fingers are too large for conveniently small devices, and accidental button-pushes cause problems).
6)Navigational tools will continue to be limited to one’s person (who wants to sort out their directions from everyone else’s, and who wants to advertise that they’re lost).
7)There will still be very low adoption rates among those with grey hair.

By: HermitDave

HermitDave — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:18:27 +0000

I saw a video like this from HP or some other large company waaaaay back in 1997, on video tape of all things. I wonder how it would stand up now, over 10 years later. That is something I would LOVE to find again on the internet if only I could remember the details.

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