[video=youtube;X-GXO_urMow]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-GXO_urMow&feature=relmfu[/video]
I know it may come off as advertising and a feel-good video, I can say, actively participating with future-tech industries, this stuff IS real and IS possible.
It is highly likely all this and more will be commonplace by 2030, and prevalent in the times up until then.
[B]Edit: I have decided to answer some questions that people seem to be having below, and I probably will keep adding things. I could take the time to add sources for what I say, but I really don't want to take the time, I'll simply say what is fact, and what is opinion. [/B]
[B][U]Fact[/U][/B]
[QUOTE=Death King83;34813626]Smudges! SMUDGES EVERYWHERE!
[IMG]http://surfpk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ipad-fingerprints-and-smudges.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
This glass is, relatively to the glass we use today, nonporous, meaning dirt and oils will not get stuck in the pores, hence no smudges.
[editline]22nd February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=theLazyLion;34814564][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12913216/Screenshots/howthehell.PNG[/img] Why isn't his thumb pressing those buttons, how are you supposed to hold the glass tablet thing if everything is a touchable button.[/QUOTE] Smarter better touchscreens. Based on movements the tablets etc. will know when you intend or don't intend to press or swipe something.
[editline]22nd February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;34812897]why did she have to go through a whole display of her clothes only to just open the door and take them out[/QUOTE]
This one I can't answer. lol. The closet door was kind of ridiculous in its intent in th video.
[editline]22nd February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Wolverunder;34814514]
Also have fun buying six 7970s to run a 60,000x80,000 wall display webcam at 200 FPS, like in the doctor room.[/QUOTE]
Seriously? Do you know how fast computing power is progressing? Not to mention consumer video cards are nowhere near the power computers can potentially be. Even assuming they are, computing power is DOUBLING every 18 months. Meaning 18 months from now, we will have twice as much power as we do today, then 18 months from then quadruple what we have today. 30 steps = 1 billion. This has happened. We've had over a billionfold increase in computing power since the late 60's. That trend is NOT stopping. They are also getting much much smaller, and cheaper. You will not need to drop money on external processing power for these systems. ALSO PRICE CONTINUALLY DECREASES. THIS SHIT IS NOT FOR THE RICH JUST AS CELL PHONES ARE NO LONGER FOR THE RICH.
[QUOTE=Azaz3l;34816494]The tablets look fragile as fuck[/QUOTE]
The tablets will be tougher to break than your phone is now. Light weight means that dropping them will not damage them, and flexible means they will not rip. Even if those two things COULD damage it, they would not, due to hydrophobic glass. Seriously look that shit up, it is basically indestructible in terms of physical malleability.
[QUOTE=Sherow_Xx;34816859]God, I'm tired of this weird obsession with touch screens.
It isn't going to be "the future" unless touch screens start becoming actually practical. Sure it's fancy as shit, but a button still does the same job more reliably.
Also if they're made of glass, you can't play tetris in school without the teacher seeing it...[/QUOTE]
I have a huge problem with this, and my problem is. NO ONE FUCKING UNDERSTANDS COMPUTING POWER IS GETTING GREATER AND GREATER. Many seem to have in mind they have to upgrade their video cards every year or two, but still hold back in their mind that this trend fucking continues into the future, at exponential rates! 20 years from now touchscreen software and hardware will have surpassed physical buttons in utility and ease of use, and matched them in reliability. You even said "unless touch screens start becoming practical". What do you think is happening? Everyone dropped their shit at the "Touchscreen Improvements Lab" and got hired at Corning?
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;34824377]Fuck glass I want holograms[/QUOTE]
Holograms have already been developed, it's a wonder more people don't know about it. It is true they have at the moment a very limited color spectrum. I'm sure this will be implemented eventually.
[QUOTE=Jasun;34820933]If all this shit happens in the future I'm probably going to be one of those old people who refuse to accept technology. Last thing we need is to be looking at screens 24/7.[/QUOTE]
There have been studies and scientific findings proven that screens don't actually strain your eyes nor your brain. Monitor hertz of lower than 70 do. This may not be your concern however.
[QUOTE=Hullu V3;34820269]I find it funny how in all these "Future technology" videos, the video introduces us to some multimillionaires home and to a technology that costs another ten million to implement into your house.
They all speak about "this will be our future". No, it's gonna be the rich peoples future. The future doesn't change the fact that the technology behind this video costs like a motherfucker and an average joe can just dream about even owning a tablet of some sort.
Future doesn't solve poverty.[/QUOTE]
[B]MEGAHOLYFUCKING SHIT JESUS FLIES A TANKTOP[/B]
There is so much wrong with this it hurts. I do not mean to insult Hullu, but this deserves a topic all on its own! This is getting a list...
1. Remember a time called 1999? When the rich and powerful were able to afford big bulky MOBILE PHONES! Remember 2011? When kids in the ghetto whined about not getting an iPhone because they were (relatively) accessible to everyone? Consumer technology decreases in price. Get your head out of the fucking present and stop trying to imagine present prices, in future scenarios.
2. FUTURE DOES INDEED SOLVE POVERTY. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ THE BOOK ABUNDANCE RELEASED TWO DAYS AGO, WRITTEN BY PETER DIAMANDIS, [url]http://www.abundancethebook.com/[/url]
300 years ago the majority of people were in poverty, 500 years ago ONLY KINGS AND NOBLES LESS THAN .1% OF THE POPULATION WAS NOT IN POVERTY OF TODAY'S STANDARDS (check me on that one). And today what is the poverty rate? Technology has consistently decreased the price in water, food, energy, housing, and luxury, even despite the hard recession of today, we live better than did our generation 60 years ago. I don't care that you think the 1950's were a better time and place to live because everything was so simple and the milkman delivered milk to your door! I'm saying that factually, people have higher qualities of living standards in general today.
[B][U]OPINION[/U][/B]
[QUOTE=TheTalon;34815758]It's nice stuff, but they always say Oh this helps her in school and all that
NO SCHOOL that I ever went to, allowed anything electronic except a fucking calculator. Even in 2005, my last year in high school, If you had a phone. Not if you were playing with it or it rang, but if you just had one, they'd take that shit so fast, and keep it until the end of the year.
If you brought a tablet in there holy bum fucking cheese crackers batman. They call it a disruption, even if it clearly is used to help study or something like that, it's still a disruption because EVERYONE doesn't have one.
Now college is a different story, and requires so much money that if they ever told me No, you can't have that in my class, I'd say fuck you I'm paying nearly $100 grand for these 4 years, I'll fuck in here if I want
But back in topic. It's useful because it has practical uses to make mundane shit easier, and it's light and doesn't take up any room at all. I'd like to see car windshields with this layered in between the already two layers of glass so you could put your Speed, Fuel, Mileage and shit right there so you don't have to take your eyes off the road. But they already have this in some cars as a HUD, so it's really not practical[/QUOTE]
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, do not relate your one single experience to every high school. My mother is a black haired bitch so all mothers must be black haired bitches! My school, next year, will be the first school in my county (and I think state), to supply laptops to the students at a 1:1 ratio. My school very much endorses technology, and even though a /= b, we have the highest acceptance rate and SAT scores in my county. My school has no problem with people using their electronics in class. Again, other schools may have a problem!
[QUOTE=Uncle Bourbon;34815337]I don't want to live in a world where everything is glass displays.[/QUOTE]
The world will not be made of glass lol. Everything in the video was where glass already applies in the real world, save for the new concept of the tablets, replacing mobile phones. Glass was not ADDED to anywhere, except for the purpose of the forest (I'll admit that's a big one) and in a teaching environment. Many other materials will still be prevalent for a LONG time to come.
[QUOTE=Jasun;34824064]Myself and my friends agree that all this flashy shit such as interactive whiteboards don't do a better job at making us learn. Blackboard learning is still the 'best' way. Also, teachers aren't gonna know how to use all the new shit or it'll break down all the time, as technology in schools does, so if we become entirely dependent on digital technology in classrooms the chances are that it will cause much more disruption than there is currently in classrooms.[/QUOTE]
In my opinion (based on what I know of course), things also become easier to use to be able to be sold to any consumer. Imagine how much knowledge you needed to do something on a computer 20-25 years ago, and now, many things have been simplified not only due to increased computing capabilities, but to reach to a wider consumer audience. And lol "breaking down". Other than the public computers your school has, what actually has problems? And it may, maybe I'm talking out of my ass here but there just seems to be a bandwagon of technophobia. Blackboard learning is the best you say? Well if future advancements can't make learning better, and you agree that things in the past were not the best way of doing things, we just so happen to have been born at the peak of education's finest hour? This is our salvation and glory in education reform? It is impossible to deny that the future does not bring higher standards of education. Since the middle ages, ESPECIALLY through the 1900's up until now, education standards, IQ scores, and specialized jobs have been on the rise despite an also rising population number. It hasn't stopped and the graph has only accelerated.
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;34823725]Ugh. It's a cool vision for the future, but interaction through huge touchscreen displays like these will never become commonplace. The reason is simple; the principle of "least effort required" will always prevail. That's why motion controls in videogames aren't becoming standard; it's much easier to just slump in the couch with a comfortable sixaxis.
For the same reason most people won't like dancing around in front of a motion capture camera or swing a weemote around, most people won't like having to use big arm motions and finger swipes to navigate around simple menus to perform mundane tasks. You don't want upper-body exercise when creating a shopping list, organizing meetings or browsing the web by navigating a massive glass pane; you want a minimum-effort interaction medium involving minuscule motions or otherwise those simple tasks becomes a strain quickly.
Touchscreens are pretty much as large, accurate and discrete as they'll ever need to be right now. What we need to improve is cost-effectiveness and power consumption. Glass tablets, remotes, doors, windows and such may be useful, but your closet door isn't gonna become a glass touchscreen.[/QUOTE]
To me, this is the only viable argument in the rest of the thread, against having huge touchscreens (other than people plainly stating they don't like touchscreens, which even then I think some are on a technophobic bandwagon, I know I'm a radical dickhole.) However I'm going to try and rebuttle this guy. The Wii. Why don't you play it? It's too physically demanding you say? Or maybe its the utter lack of realism and flexibility it has, with its 12 total rotational movements. Up down side to side and diagonals. forwards and backwards. The Wii has incredibly lackluster games and computational power. If the Wii enabled you to have true lifelike swordfight experiences, or submerged you in a perfect virtual reality, I'm sure you would use it despite the "physical activity"(more people would anyways). The same thing will happen with touchscreens. As utility and ease of access and overall function improves, so will the consumer base that uses it. I believe button technology is at its peak.
[QUOTE=Kentz;34822893]and here i am thinking of getting rid of my cellphone...[/QUOTE]
Yet you posted from a computer...
[QUOTE=Arvuti;34822566]Don't understand why all of that high tech shit is needed in the class rooms, the good old blackboard works just fine.
Seeing bunch of flashy things is going to enchance you're learning ? Okay.[/QUOTE]
Oh "flashy things" huh? I suppose your computer only uses flashy things to enhance board games into video games! Sure...just stick with the board games man computers and technology just make it flash and look pretty.
[QUOTE=Dead Madman;34817992]It's cool that all of those futuristic movies are coming to life, but I'd rather remain as we were 10ish years ago, because I don't like all this high tech shit, it makes me feel like we'll have the outcome of the film I, Robot.[/QUOTE]
Last thing I will answer for awhile. AI takeover is simply not probable. Possible, but not probable. Many reasons considering, but I will only say one which is neither the most important nor most convincing, however it is my personal favorite. There is no doubt AI will be here before the end of the century, and most likely rise up somewhere in the 2050s or 2060s. AI will not be human in thought. It may have the intelligence a sapient will possess but in it's early stages, a single AI program will be billions of billions of times faster than an unaugmented human brain. Despite that and also because of that, it will have a totally different thought pattern, but when and if (not really if), it does reach a sapient-like reasoning and emotional response. Why would it eliminate us? Why would it forcefully "help" us? It will be a massively intelligent entity, and one thing people forget is that any aggressive qualities that humans have are from evolution and are because aggressive qualities helped us to survive. AI obviously does not evolve or be created in the same sense. We would program it with empathy and altruism, and when it rewrites its qualities an intelligent being would most likely NOT choose to be violent. Most likely. Lets just pray.
This guy really likes glass.
DragonScale works better.
why did she have to go through a whole display of her clothes only to just open the door and take them out
When the dad got into the car and noticed the dashboard was changed, For some reason i imagined him turning around and saying "FUCKING KIDS WALK TO SCHOOL YOU FUCKS."
That bowl full of popcorn is also made of glass. Amazing.
Corning is the type of company I imagine tries to play the good guys but is actually some giant evil organization bent on taking over the world.
[QUOTE=Priori;34813448]Corning is the type of company I imagine tries to play the good guys but is actually some giant evil organization bent on taking over the world.[/QUOTE]
Apple
[QUOTE=Priori;34813448]Corning is the type of company I imagine tries to play the good guys but is actually some giant evil organization bent on taking over the world.[/QUOTE]
Like that Terminator attraction at Universal Studios where while waiting they play a skynet commercial talking about robots innovating the future and all that jazz.
And then some dickhead kid drops a virus on his highschool's servers.
[editline]22nd February 2012[/editline]
Also have fun buying six 7970s to run a 60,000x80,000 wall display webcam at 200 FPS, like in the doctor room.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12913216/Screenshots/howthehell.PNG[/img]
Why isn't his thumb pressing those buttons, how are you supposed to hold the glass tablet thing if everything is a touchable button.
It all looks cool, but is it practical? Do we really need screens on every inch of surface?
Added to OP.
[QUOTE=Photo Shop;34814617]It all looks cool, but is it practical? Do we really need screens on every inch of surface?[/QUOTE]
*Corning mercenary's break down door*
I work in a school.. that would never happen, that glass is going to shatter by a student at some stage.
Well not in a highschool.
THIN, DURABLE GLASS!
the horror if you let something like that drop
I don't want to live in a world where everything is glass displays.
Woah.... In the future we will be able to pause time!?
[editline]22nd February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Uncle Bourbon;34815337]I don't want to live in a world where everything is glass displays.[/QUOTE]
Everytime i come back from a night out drinking or the like I have to scrub my phone clean from my grimy finger prints and whatever i've dropped it in, i'm not really looking forward to having to clean my windows and shit aswell
Not sure that I like this.
I mean, technology is cool and everything, but when is the stopping point? When will everything physical be replaced by data and touch screens?
It's nice stuff, but they always say Oh this helps her in school and all that
NO SCHOOL that I ever went to, allowed anything electronic except a fucking calculator. Even in 2005, my last year in high school, If you had a phone. Not if you were playing with it or it rang, but if you just had one, they'd take that shit so fast, and keep it until the end of the year.
If you brought a tablet in there holy bum fucking cheese crackers batman. They call it a disruption, even if it clearly is used to help study or something like that, it's still a disruption because EVERYONE doesn't have one.
Now college is a different story, and requires so much money that if they ever told me No, you can't have that in my class, I'd say fuck you I'm paying nearly $100 grand for these 4 years, I'll fuck in here if I want
But back in topic. It's useful because it has practical uses to make mundane shit easier, and it's light and doesn't take up any room at all. I'd like to see car windshields with this layered in between the already two layers of glass so you could put your Speed, Fuel, Mileage and shit right there so you don't have to take your eyes off the road. But they already have this in some cars as a HUD, so it's really not practical
[QUOTE=reevezy67;34814923]I work in a school.. that would never happen, that glass is going to shatter by a student at some stage.
Well not in a highschool.[/QUOTE]
The school where I study has one of these:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VfpVYYQzHs[/media]
The tablets look fragile as fuck
immediately imagined rebecca black in my head when they were dancing/singing in the back of the car
what if somebody hacks all the school tablets and screens and shows porn
[QUOTE=KlaseR;34816674]what if somebody hacks all the school tablets and screens and shows porn[/QUOTE]
then everyone will be happy
God, I'm tired of this weird obsession with touch screens.
It isn't going to be "the future" unless touch screens start becoming actually practical. Sure it's fancy as shit, but a button still does the same job more reliably.
Also if they're made of glass, you can't play tetris in school without the teacher seeing it...
I fucking hate this touchscreen obsession that some people have.
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