Um, were you guys paying attention? The Microsoft video shows the very same kind of technology that is in the TED video, only it’s a lot cooler! It’s not meant to say that Microsoft is inventing it all, it’s just imagining what the future will look like with that kind of technology. Geez.
This is not about the Microsoft Surface. It’s a video about the possibilities suggested by the projection technology that is explained in the TED video.
MCQ, I know, I watched the video, it’s just the same kind of issue. Why would I want a giant wall computer when I can have an iphone that can do all that stuff?
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.
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.
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.
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).
So in the future everything will be controlled virtually through highly deliberate hand and finger movements?
I guess mimes get the last laugh.
Comment by BrianJ — March 28, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
The future is coming, but not from Microsoft. Check out this amazing video.
Comment by Rusty — March 28, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
I saw that TED video last week- Amazing stuff.
Comment by tracy m — March 28, 2009 @ 6:35 pm
Um, were you guys paying attention? The Microsoft video shows the very same kind of technology that is in the TED video, only it’s a lot cooler! It’s not meant to say that Microsoft is inventing it all, it’s just imagining what the future will look like with that kind of technology. Geez.
Comment by MCQ — March 28, 2009 @ 7:35 pm
just makes me think of this.
Comment by Matt W. — March 28, 2009 @ 8:15 pm
This is not about the Microsoft Surface. It’s a video about the possibilities suggested by the projection technology that is explained in the TED video.
Comment by MCQ — March 28, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
MCQ, I know, I watched the video, it’s just the same kind of issue. Why would I want a giant wall computer when I can have an iphone that can do all that stuff?
Comment by Matt W. — March 28, 2009 @ 8:40 pm
The video, not the Ted thing, which was awesome.
Comment by Matt W. — March 28, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
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.
Comment by MCQ — March 28, 2009 @ 10:45 pm
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.
Comment by Rusty — March 29, 2009 @ 10:02 pm
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.
Comment by MCQ — March 29, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
That’s cool and all, but I wish my kid’s school could afford to not lay off a bunch of teachers next year.
Comment by Susan M — March 30, 2009 @ 8:49 am
I’m still hung up on the Knowledge Navigator. When is it going to show up, huh?
Comment by a random John — March 30, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
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).
Comment by kristine N — March 30, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
What is the Knowledge Navigator?
Comment by MCQ — March 30, 2009 @ 2:08 pm
This is from 1987. I saw it in the mid 1990s and I’m still waiting:
Comment by a random John — March 30, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
arJ, doesn’t the iphone pretty much do all that?
Comment by MCQ — March 30, 2009 @ 5:34 pm
Maybe I need to find a bowtie app…
Comment by a random John — March 30, 2009 @ 6:32 pm