Comments on: The Future http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/ A pop culture blog by Mormons but not about Mormonism Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:26:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26306 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:32:47 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26306 Maybe I need to find a bowtie app…

]]> By: MCQ http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26305 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:34:35 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26305 arJ, doesn’t the iphone pretty much do all that?

]]> By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26304 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:05:48 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26304 This is from 1987. I saw it in the mid 1990s and I’m still waiting:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdS4TscWH8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0%5D

]]> By: MCQ http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26303 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:08:09 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26303 What is the Knowledge Navigator?

]]> By: kristine N http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26302 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:45:21 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26302 Huh, looks a lot like the Diamond Age. Next thing you know kids will be raised by books and parents their kidnapped by Drummers intent on improving technology.

Cool video. Since Microsoft is claiming these technologies represent sustainability, I wonder what everything is made from and powered by, and what the environmental cost of all those lovely gadgets is (or would be in real life).

]]> By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26301 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:31:16 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26301 I’m still hung up on the Knowledge Navigator. When is it going to show up, huh?

]]> By: Susan M http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26300 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:49:21 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26300 That’s cool and all, but I wish my kid’s school could afford to not lay off a bunch of teachers next year.

]]> By: MCQ http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26299 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:09:56 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26299 Rusty, yes, but the point I was trying to make was that this is a cool video about the applications of this technology that we may be seeing in the future. Hence the name of the post.

What’s happening now is interesting too, but you said: “The future is coming but not from Microsoft,” then you linked to the video showing the present applications of this technology. That’s not the future.

And BTW, don’t be surprised if this technology is purchased by Microsoft and that it is that company that brings us these applications, irrational prejudice notwithstanding.

]]> By: Rusty http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26298 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:02:57 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26298 MCQ,
I was paying attention. But I am more impressed by actual technology than what someone has in their head. I mean, the Microsoft video is cool, but so was Minority Report, and that was like 7 years ago. Of course that TED technology is clunky, but they don’t have the advantage of post-production and make believe.

]]> By: MCQ http://kulturblog.com/2009/03/28/the-future/#comment-26297 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:45:25 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1929#comment-26297 Did you watch the whole video? Obviously not. Later, it shows the same things being done by a handheld. Really, there’s nothing in the TED video that isn’t imagined in the Microsoft video even cooler and more elegantly. The difference is that the TED video is showing technology that can actually work now, while the microsoft video is imagining what that same technology might look like in the future, when it has been refined and applied more widely. The technology in the TED video is actually very clunky and primitive compared with the Microsoft video, but that’s the difference that imagination makes.

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