Cool "future" concept

[GrdLockV6]

http://bit.ly/gp2Wxp The future looks cool

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[96SSConv#2033]

Thanks for not embedding.

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[TedH]

Very cool, as long as everyone has clean fingers...

[slayer6x6]

You have to get up to change the channel!?!? F THAT!!!

Ted, one of the captions said something about smudge resistant glass.

[CatsTasteGood]

I think Dave K works for Corning. Where is he?

[JMiller]

By today's standards, that seems very unrealistic, where competing manufacturers and developers, not to mention network problems, would render only a fraction of that amount of seamless integration possible. But then, the 10 year old version of me could only dream about technology that worked as well as what we have today. Give it 10-20 years and it just might happen.

Then again, there'll always be thugs to vandalize and bums to piss on the bus stop display.

[MustangEater82]

Something that got me... how come they could move the video chat from the phone to the counter top... and still talk into the counter.... where is the video camera?

[GrdLockV6]

Originally Posted by MustangEater82

Something that got me... how come they could move the video chat from the phone to the counter top... and still talk into the counter.... where is the video camera?

Yeah I noticed that one too. Although in 20 years, I wouldn't doubt there might be a way to make that possible. All of the surfaces can not only display information, but can "see" as well, without the use of an actual camera like we use today.

[Dave K]

While I think it's a cool first attempt by my company to raise their brand image in the consumer space, I've discovered over the years that anyone who tries to look that far forward will be mostly wrong. On the other hand... most of the technology in the video (other than the invisible cameras) is not far from viability... though not affordability.


Vid looks pretty cool in real HD (Not youtube "HD"), but I don't think that version is on the net anywhere... and I'd probably get in trouble if I uploaded it.

[J3ff]

So you're say that your company is dreaming?

[dtp]

Ah hell my dreams of a flying glass car are shattered...

[ibanez6rg]

Originally Posted by J3ff

So you're say that your company is dreaming?

Isn't that what all companies do?

[Dave K]

Originally Posted by ibanez6rg

Isn't that what all companies do?

All good companies anyway... they dream of what could be.

[96SSConv#2033]

Originally Posted by Dave K

While I think it's a cool first attempt by my company to raise their brand image in the consumer space, I've discovered over the years that anyone who tries to look that far forward will be mostly wrong. On the other hand... most of the technology in the video (other than the invisible cameras) is not far from viability... though not affordability.

You're right. Looking that far in to the future, a company is bound to get some right, some wrong, and some will evolve in to a more efficient version of the idea.

We ran some similar ads in 1993-94. I didn't run a count, but I was suprised at how many came true. It was also hard for me to think that these ideas was so futuristic when so many of these things are so common today.

Even if your company doesn't produce those specific products, it is very likely that they will have some influence. Like our ad with the kid selecting a video on demand, Netflix popped in to my head. Most people don't think at&t when they think of Netflix, but AT&T Labs developed the suggestion engine for Netflix.

I really do hope that your co. develops these technologies. There is plenty of bandwidth intensive apps in that vid that will keep me employed.

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[nafbod]

You Will. And the company that will bring it to you, AT&T.
That got annoying, but that is kinda cool how we do have a lot of those, and more.