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The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 03:28:15 Reply

Presented yesterday at the Wharton Business Technology Conference.

I don't believe they will make it by 2019, with all the ethical, cultural, and financial limitations they'd have to face. But if you're in your mid-late teens like me, you'll probably see most of this stuff as you get older.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 03:30:51 Reply

Its totally gonna take only 10 years to make a piece of paper that you can hold, press to click, connect to the internet with and be paper. And without burning off your hand, or giving you cancer too!

Why isn't this invented yet?!


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 03:31:29 Reply

I was just listening to this song. How appropriate.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 03:47:27 Reply

Microsoft is retarded. (Windows Vista's alright though).


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 03:51:01 Reply

I call BS on the newspaper. I mean, it'd be so damn expensive! I'd prefer paper, which I can use for other things, and keep. We can't digitalise everything.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 04:11:19 Reply

If life is like that one day, I think I'll still sit in my living room with a normal computer thanks.
However, seeming as 10 years time is quite fucking short, I bet only all the big companies and workplaces will be able to afford this stuff.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 04:28:32 Reply

At 3/3/09 04:11 AM, FurryDemon wrote: If life is like that one day, I think I'll still sit in my living room with a normal computer thanks.
However, seeming as 10 years time is quite fucking short, I bet only all the big companies and workplaces will be able to afford this stuff.

I would suggest we shoul adapt to new inventions as fast as possible because there are a lot of people with the same mind set as yours, so prove our superiority we should adapt to new things in life.... :)

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 04:29:35 Reply

At 3/3/09 04:11 AM, FurryDemon wrote: If life is like that one day, I think I'll still sit in my living room with a normal computer thanks.
However, seeming as 10 years time is quite fucking short, I bet only all the big companies and workplaces will be able to afford this stuff.

I would suggest we shoul adapt to new inventions as fast as possible because there are a lot of people with the same mind set as yours, so to prove our superiority we should adapt to new things in life.... :)

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 04:30:28 Reply

At 3/3/09 03:47 AM, foshiznay wrote: Microsoft is retarded. (Windows Vista's alright though).

Any intention to back this up or are you just being a dipshit?


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 05:32:07 Reply

At 3/3/09 04:30 AM, Wonderful wrote:
At 3/3/09 03:47 AM, foshiznay wrote: Microsoft is retarded. (Windows Vista's alright though).
Any intention to back this up or are you just being a dipshit?

why do u think that i have an intension behind backing it up .....
I was just giving my view, what i think is right

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 05:37:48 Reply

At 3/3/09 05:32 AM, Linclon wrote:
Microsoft is retarded. (Windows Vista's alright though).

Ah, Window's Virus. Silly Linclon.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 05:45:32 Reply

nice name there "strawberry"

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 07:38:59 Reply

At 3/3/09 03:30 AM, Biscuit-head wrote: Its totally gonna take only 10 years to make a piece of paper that you can hold, press to click, connect to the internet with and be paper.

Who said they're just starting on making it?


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 07:50:49 Reply

I dunno, I don't think that technology can advance that quickly. You also have to take into consideration what resources will be use and how pricey that shit will be.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 08:20:20 Reply

I don't think half of that will happen. Not that I'm stuck in the past, but when invisioning the future people always seem to picture it as if it was based on present technology, and it never is, the perspective won't be the same then as it is now, thus the products will probably differ as well. Pretty cool vid otherwise.

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:16:07 Reply

Holy fuck.

Nothing to s-say... just... holy fuck.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:22:13 Reply

At 3/3/09 03:28 AM, Michaelas10 wrote: Presented yesterday at the Wharton Business Technology Conference.

I don't believe they will make it by 2019, with all the ethical, cultural, and financial limitations they'd have to face. But if you're in your mid-late teens like me, you'll probably see most of this stuff as you get older.

Personally I don't think this is too unlikely to come to fruition, look how quickly computers have advanced since they came into the public eye.

Technology has lurched forward dramatically since commercialisation, so this just seems logical.

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:22:23 Reply

At 3/3/09 10:16 AM, sonicfeet1 wrote: Holy fuck.

That divine a futurstic vision eh?

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:29:15 Reply

You know the Jettisons took place in 2002.

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:33:37 Reply

looks pretty sweet, but that speech thing and the part when he found the tool in the closed drawer will never happen


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:34:54 Reply

I think these things are more for business purposes. It's a conglomeration of ideas, but they're just pretty thoughts that look good when put onto video. Maybe a few of the more reasonable ones have a few guys working on them, but really the video is just there to impress investors and let them know that somewhere in the Microsoft empire there are people thinking about turning the world into a futuristic utopia of technological wonderment.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:35:05 Reply

At 3/3/09 10:29 AM, CanadianSnowman wrote: You know the Jettisons took place in 2002.

Damn right, i'm still waiting for my flying car!!

Besides, the touch screen computers have long been out... Microsoft just did a shit job selling the product...

(today we have touch-screen phones though, but look at the time difference from when it was created to when it finally was marketed profitably. Of course, people still go about not using them...)

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:36:51 Reply

OMg how cool,....i bet kids would pretend their wallets where pokedexes XD


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:38:06 Reply

At 3/3/09 03:28 AM, Michaelas10 wrote: Presented yesterday at the Wharton Business Technology Conference.

I don't believe they will make it by 2019, with all the ethical, cultural, and financial limitations they'd have to face. But if you're in your mid-late teens like me, you'll probably see most of this stuff as you get older.

yea... the future... most of those things were more for show than practcal use sorry to say.

Don't believe the crap microsoft tells you, especially if they made vista hate that OS compared to XP.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:46:06 Reply

This is exactly what will happen to start a real-life all-out war when technology fails and robots take over the world and replace it with a dictator.

Looks pretty cool though.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:50:47 Reply

That looks pretty cool, but I bet none of it will happen.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:50:53 Reply

At 3/3/09 03:47 AM, foshiznay wrote: Microsoft is retarded. (Windows Vista's alright though).

... [facepalm.jpg] Vista is horrible.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 10:56:42 Reply

At 3/3/09 10:50 AM, carlosbarn wrote:
At 3/3/09 03:47 AM, foshiznay wrote: Microsoft is retarded. (Windows Vista's alright though).
... [facepalm.jpg] Vista is horrible.

You mind actually backing that up with something to avoid looking like a complete and utter fucking retard?

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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 11:00:05 Reply

Seems reasonable to me.... looks like nothing but huge iPod touch screens but without the big plastic casing around it.

The applications the screen used where advanced but nothing insainly crazy. We have physics games like that dog and ball program the school children where playing with here on Newgrounds written in Flash.

Virtual internet based white-boards aren't anything new. There's already been news stories and discussions about the virtual newspaper, and everythign else is just figuring out how to stream large videos seamlessly... wich we can already sort of do, but not to the point where it would be worth the cost to place in a school or average business. Give it 10 yeas though, it'll happen.

There's nothing 'new' here... just the same old ideas but in better quality.


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Response to The future.. according to Microsoft 2009-03-03 11:02:50 Reply

That's cool and all, but what would we do if the machines stopped working due to any of the problems BOUND to happen with this kind of technology?

I mean, we're only going to depend 100% on this, from what the movie has shown.


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