PAST Visions of the Future - Future of Interfaces
Video visions of aspirational futures made from the 1950s to the 2010s, mostly by white dudes with bullshit jobs.
Productivity Future Vision
Any sufficiently advanced vision piece is indistinguishable from Black Mirror.
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BlackBerry Future Visions 2 - Leaked Video - YouTube
Possibly the least imaginative concept video ever made, this piece commissioned by Blackberry shows a dystopian near-future ruled by security departments run by people with very, very tired arms.
The Computer for the 21st Century
A classic piece of design fiction written by Mark Weiser 21 years ago.
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
YouTube - A Day Made of Glass… Made possible by Corning.
There are two things I’d like to see after watching this video:
- A slew of parodies to highlight the unintended consequences of this marketeer’s panopticon,
- The Paleofuture blog post in 100 years looking back at this.
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop on Vimeo
One potential nightmare vision of the future …that looks kind of cool.
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A presentation at An Event Apart Chicago 2019.
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It’s not you, Twitter, it’s me.