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In 1967, Philco-Ford created with a video about how life would be like in 1999. The video predicted that by 1999 we would be shopping online, pay bills and send direct electronic mail to any person in the world. In 1993, AT&T made a series of commercials about life in future and some of the things we would be able to do. Most of it seems doable today if not in the U.S., in parts of Europe, Japan, Korea and China. Now Microsoft has released a video of what we would be able to do in 2019 due to technological advances. You be judge and tell us what you think.
Philco-Ford Video of Life in 1999
AT&T Video of Life in the Future
Microsoft Video of Life in 2019
Channels: ATT, future, Microsoft, technology
Nice vision but it is actually only one thing MS predicts: That we have a ultra flat touch screen in various sizes. Nice – but how about LIVE?
Comment by Axel Schultze — March 9, 2009 @ 1:01 PM
The children with the classroom in the background were interacting from opposite sides of a window sized transparent screen with translation or educational software built in. I assumed that we were to assume that the two sides were actually far apart. Otherwise, why weren’t the children on the same side of the window?
Does that count as LIVE? What about the chat session with real time translation?
I agree that the view of 2019 is not as far reaching as the view of 1999, but then the time frame is smaller. The scope is small in all three presentations. It’s about communication technology, not about culture. Online shopping and nanny cams were anticipated in 1967, but changes to sex roles weren’t.
Comment by Bryn — March 9, 2009 @ 5:49 PM
MS ad is beautiful – but seems to be a pitch for Surface. Not much more.
Comment by David — March 10, 2009 @ 5:22 AM
One thing Microsoft seems not to predict is that it will be overtaken by GNU Linux on desktops, servers, embedded systems and portables.
Comment by A.K.Karthikeyan — March 13, 2009 @ 11:04 PM