Microsoft Nerd Porn View of the Future

Apparently in the future everyone bores me to tears and there's no plots. I'm pretty sure I already saw this future vision in Minority Report, but it's cute to see corporations spending ungodly amounts of money on nerd porn like this. With that said, I did stay for a good three minutes of it. The question becomes one of practicality and do the benefits outweigh the disadvantages? Can the costs come down enough and the interfaces become intuitive enough? Can we adjust to keyboards with no tactile feedback coming only from projections? More importantly, do we want to always be surrounded by screens? Wait. Too late for that one.

The largest leap in this video isn't the digital paper or the touch screens, one well on it's way to development and the other available at your local Best Buy. The biggest question on my mind is will we have a web infrastructure capable of handing full res real time video transfers? I'm sure it will happen, it's just a question of how long. Cars didn't get into full swing until the government built the roads that allowed the railroad industry to plummet. It's hard to imagine the government doing that for the internet. Google's been buying up dark fiber for years now. As far as I can tell, it won't be long before they own a good deal of the physical internet, and not just the software side. That will be an interesting twist in the progression that I'm looking forward to seeing unfold.