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"""these concept videos don't look far enough forward.""" If you look at any 'visions of the future' from the last 150 years, their visions retrospectively loo
by anjc 15y ago
"""these concept videos don't look far enough forward."""
If you look at any 'visions of the future' from the last 150 years, their visions retrospectively look silly and naive. From a forward looking perspective, though, would a true vision of the future make sense to a person seeing it? Maybe a clunky 'TV + rotary telephone' 60's vision of videophones would be more understandable/realistic/visionary than the sight of an iphone with a forward facing camera...?
Incremental steps...there's no point in looking too far forward or you wont get anywhere.
- icandoitbetter 15y agoDid you even read the essay? Visions of the future are critical in shaping the focus of today's research. GUIs, laptops, etc. came almost entirely out of Alan Kay's mind. Visions of the future that just plain suck, such as Microsoft's, then become misguiding.