Corning put together this video called "A Day Made Of Glass," which seems to be getting a great deal of attention on YouTube. The idea of the video is that the near future will be full of touchscreens, smart windows and appliances like stoves which are all made with glass! The neat thing is that the video shows everything from the house, to the car, to shopping and work-place all working together. IO9 blog of course has a somewhat different view of the milieu. Check out the IO9 blog comments here
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A lot of this stuff looks really cool. And some of it, I have to admit, seems creepily close to something out of "1984" or some similar totalitarian dystopia. But my biggest concern here would be this; how do you wipe down the countertops in that house without accidentally activating a whole slew of random functions?
Hey JoshM
You know, I didn't put that impression in all though the author of the article said the very same thing. I wondered if it were phobic or over reaction but you echo the same sentiment. I think that much of the tech was an outward manifestation of how much info we already broadcast about ourselves. Disconcerting? Most definitely...
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