Future Computer Of 2020

[musicetime101]

Have a look at what computers will be in the 2020, and the new 2019 a microsoft vision:
Future Computer Of 2020
They are cool...

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

That is amazingly short-sighted. The pen backs up data to your watch? Dude, we're already really close to having all of our data stored on the cloud. And a Bluetooth connection between the pen and watch? Please, Bluetooth is a crappy technology that is quickly becomingly obsolete.

 

[Q]

Don't click that link, it's a shitty website

 

[dudeman007]

looks like no one could give up xp...

 

[ed21x]

Projecting 20 years into the future is pretty much impossible, and that demo is just showcasing technology that has been around for quite some time but still has some degree of impractical novelty. In 10 years though, I suspect solid state HD will be fast enough to supplant regular hard drives, rame, and cache, thus making the whole PC architecture that much more simple, flexible, power efficient, cooler, and cheaper. By that point, advancement won't be based upon performance increases but rather integration with the things around us.

 

[soccerballtux]

I like the other link, the Microsoft one:

http://www.freshbite.info/fnews_1236041081_11205.htm

Lots of good UI ideas actually. Of course we won't see that, they'll take 30 years to give us something like that unless they meet with more competition. That video is a PR move showing they can come up with great stuff and that for the next 10 years they think they will be selling these great ideas to everybody so profit will be through the roof.

 

[musicetime101]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
I like the other link, the Microsoft one:

http://www.freshbite.info/fnews_1236041081_11205.htm

Lots of good UI ideas actually. Of course we won't see that, they'll take 30 years to give us something like that unless they meet with more competition. That video is a PR move showing they can come up with great stuff and that for the next 10 years they think they will be selling these great ideas to everybody so profit will be through the roof.

Personally I think that's pretty cool...

 

[Aberforth]

Read my theory of devolution: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2278890&enterthread=y

 

[13Gigatons]

To bad Bill Gates never said that...man that myth just won't die.

 

[StinkyPinky]

The Microsoft one in that link is much better. Now that looks cool.

 

[13Gigatons]

The Microsoft one is cool but Microsoft tends to overshoot what they can actually do with there promo videos.

 

[OverVolt]

I have noscript as allowing youtube to run scripts, but in that website it wants me to re-allow youtube. So I didn't do it. Funky.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

How does this pen turn the white wall black with a projector?

 

[Raduque]

In that Microsoft video, where the tablets are pulling information off the displays/walls/tables, they're already doing that with Surface. I'm hoping to see Surface in the next 2-3 years for consumer, because Surface is frakin awesome.

I'm also waiting for Knight Rider-style "flicking", where they send windows/files/info from device to device and display to display. Of course, that's just TV magic right now, but in a few years, combined with Surface, who knows?

 

[Aberforth]

Flat keyboards are already available, these crappy interfaces is not what I call as future computing

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/

 

[RichardE]

Yeah, I can see tech within 5-7 years post recession being past that link. (Post recession).

 

[rh71]

that's a lot of motion tweening in our future.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: rh71
that's a lot of motion tweening in our future.

Very much so.

My only problem with future stuff like that video is that it shows networking so advanced that it almost seems like MS made EVERYTHING in that video, or at least, provided the tech. How do you have the standardization between walls, your phone, car, other computers, etc etc

And also, everything is too clean. Its disconcerting.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Originally posted by: rh71
that's a lot of motion tweening in our future.

Very much so.

My only problem with future stuff like that video is that it shows networking so advanced that it almost seems like MS made EVERYTHING in that video, or at least, provided the tech. How do you have the standardization between walls, your phone, car, other computers, etc etc

And also, everything is too clean. Its disconcerting.

We already have that to a point. At my dads house for example his fridge sends him notices automatically for what he might be low on based on what he has scanned/imputed as the stock. It is not hard for say to have your car send you a notice automatically about being low of gas/fluid/washer ect or tell you that your wheels are off balance. Networking itself is not really difficult at all and I am sure it will be added as standard features in the next few years. The only thing that has really been holding it back is the lack of tech knowledge of the primary group of appliance consumers. With this group demographic changing to a more tech savvy group though you can probably expect to see these offered.

 

[TwiceOver]

I would be very surprised if we are still using keyboards as our primary interface in 11 years. Voice recognition should be standard by then.

EDIT: And typing on a solid table like that would suck balls without some sort of tactile response.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
I like the other link, the Microsoft one:

http://www.freshbite.info/fnews_1236041081_11205.htm

Lots of good UI ideas actually. Of course we won't see that, they'll take 30 years to give us something like that unless they meet with more competition. That video is a PR move showing they can come up with great stuff and that for the next 10 years they think they will be selling these great ideas to everybody so profit will be through the roof.

Funny thing is, most of that UI stuff could be implemented on current systems if we can get past the whole mouse cursor-point-and-click thinking. Practicality is a different thing though, but as long as Microsoft insists that Windows has to be Windows, the world in that video will never come to be.
Computers are still too much emulating electronic versions of real world stuff with a simple as possible interface to hold them together. I definitely think the mouse driven interface is something that can and should be rethought, it's versatile but not ideal at all.

The first link was balls though. I could see the pen computer happening, but it won't be projecting a keyboard or a screen. Rather, it could hook up to a screen (possibly made of a flexible material that can roll up for easy transport) by either wire, direct plug in, or wireless connection. The pen will accept input through pointing at the screen (tablet/laser pointer type device), writing (and can be used without a screen, there's already a pen that does this), and voice commands. Overall, the first link looked like an advertisement for that IR keyboard thing.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
I would be very surprised if we are still using keyboards as our primary interface in 11 years. Voice recognition should be standard by then.

EDIT: And typing on a solid table like that would suck balls without some sort of tactile response.

I think it is shortsighted to say that we will be rid of the keyboard that quickly. There is still at least 2 generations of people who will use that until they die. Not to mention voice to text is not standard already for a reason, that being it is too ackward to type out anything formally with voice since you will miss all the formal ways to write when speaking.

You just don't talk like

"Dear Richard comma, double space, intentt capital t, word for t is Thank you, continue, Thank you for attending the event we held last Thursday, comma, it is my hope that in the future (blah blah)"

Than you realize you made a grammatical mistake somewhere it is still easier to click/fix with a keyboard. Tech is about being efficient, not about what is flashiest, which is why the keyboard will be here for a while, it is efficient.

 

[amdhunter]

People still drive 2005 Scion's in 2020?
Man the car industry must've gone to crap...

 

[TwiceOver]

Originally posted by: RichardE

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
I would be very surprised if we are still using keyboards as our primary interface in 11 years. Voice recognition should be standard by then.

EDIT: And typing on a solid table like that would suck balls without some sort of tactile response.

I think it is shortsighted to say that we will be rid of the keyboard that quickly. There is still at least 2 generations of people who will use that until they die. Not to mention voice to text is not standard already for a reason, that being it is too ackward to type out anything formally with voice since you will miss all the formal ways to write when speaking.

You just don't talk like

"Dear Richard comma, double space, intentt capital t, word for t is Thank you, continue, Thank you for attending the event we held last Thursday, comma, it is my hope that in the future (blah blah)"

Than you realize you made a grammatical mistake somewhere it is still easier to click/fix with a keyboard. Tech is about being efficient, not about what is flashiest, which is why the keyboard will be here for a while, it is efficient.

Note: I said "Primary Interface". It is not that I want to do everything with speech. But it sure would be nice to be able to just say "Hey computer, Open this, play this, visit this site, read me my mail"

Also with spell check and grammar check as good as they are today, I can't see why the computer couldn't make assumptions for your speech to text when it comes to commas and such 11 years from now.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver

Originally posted by: RichardE

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
I would be very surprised if we are still using keyboards as our primary interface in 11 years. Voice recognition should be standard by then.

EDIT: And typing on a solid table like that would suck balls without some sort of tactile response.

I think it is shortsighted to say that we will be rid of the keyboard that quickly. There is still at least 2 generations of people who will use that until they die. Not to mention voice to text is not standard already for a reason, that being it is too ackward to type out anything formally with voice since you will miss all the formal ways to write when speaking.

You just don't talk like

"Dear Richard comma, double space, intentt capital t, word for t is Thank you, continue, Thank you for attending the event we held last Thursday, comma, it is my hope that in the future (blah blah)"

Than you realize you made a grammatical mistake somewhere it is still easier to click/fix with a keyboard. Tech is about being efficient, not about what is flashiest, which is why the keyboard will be here for a while, it is efficient.

Note: I said "Primary Interface". It is not that I want to do everything with speech. But it sure would be nice to be able to just say "Hey computer, Open this, play this, visit this site, read me my mail"

Also with spell check and grammar check as good as they are today, I can't see why the computer couldn't make assumptions for your speech to text when it comes to commas and such 11 years from now.

Well technically mouses are our primary interface for the tasks you described already So the keyboard is obsolete