Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video) -istartedsomething.com February 28th, 2009
When Microsoft decides to imagine the future, it never fails to impress. Not only do you have some of the smartest people envisioning what’s possible, but they also invest so much into communicating these ideas through sights and sounds which the production value can be compared to most blockbuster sci-fi films.
Below is a montage of the full 5minute Microsoft video. At the 30 second mark you see someone reading an electronic newspaper. Check out the full video at the link above. In that video, newspapers appear at 4:20 and go till 5:10, worth the wait to see their vision of the future of news. Microsoft’s vision does not include citizen journalism or beatblogging or whatever else you want to call it. In their vision, technology hands the power back to big companies and the rich people who can afford their products. I didn’t see any screen shots to indicate this electronic newspaper technology was cheap or designed to be consumed by the masses, just some rich white guy in his Jetsons house.
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