Microsoft's Productivity Vision for 2011

The start of this video shows a personal information device that connects with network enabled devices all around you. Once we get to the point of every piece of glass having the capacity to be an interface, the future will be both exciting and possibly overly intrusive.

The video demonstrates highly interconnected, sensory devices that probably use wifi and bluetooth communications along with some kind of radio ID overlay. Fun to think about the possibilities.

Next up, the future of a super electricity grid that can power all our toys; never deliver a brown-out; and be sustainably sourced. Oh, and don't forget a data network that can handle gigabytes of data streaming, real-time all over the earth using satellites, towers and landlines.

That's the vision video I'd like to see next... I know, infrastructure... boring.



Charles Erdman

Charles Erdman

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