[extropy-chat] Cute video about the future

[Dirk Bruere]

Hal Finney wrote:

>NTT DoCoMo has a cute 10-minute video showing the world of 201X,
>at http://www.docomo-usa.com/vision2010/.  It includes widespread use
>of video phones, wireless electronic wallets and payments, and haptic
>(remote touch) technology.  Oh, yeah, the self-driving car.
>
>I had a few quibbles; one was the use of apparent "holographic" displays,
>which aren't physically possible AFAIK.  The other was the wrist video
>phone concept, which I would think would make the camera wiggle around
>too much (but maybe a wide field of view combined with video stabilizing
>software would work).  I also thought the haptic thing wasn't quite right,
>you couldn't reach out and touch something unless you had someone at
>the other end moving their gloves in synchrony with yours.
>
>  
>
And we can all have a good laugh like we do with videos shot in the 
1970s about what life will be like in the Year 2000
Those self driving cars have been a long time coming.

-- 
Dirk

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