Failed Inventions. Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video) [flv:officelabsmontage.flv 600 400] 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. Today at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, Microsoft’s Business Division president Stephen Elop unveiled the latest production from Microsoft Office Labs called “2019″, starring stock photo men, women and children playing with the next-generation of communication, collaboration and production technologies.
(via Steve Clayton) Those with a keen eye and a good memory might recognize a few familiar concepts in this video already shown in earlier videos of the “envisioning” series, for example the future of personal health, having said that, I believe there’s still a couple of new never-before-seen concepts sliced between. AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads. And they said it would never work... The quirky tech at the IFA electronics show hoping to make a big impact X-rays are a hoax, TV will fail because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night, the light bulb is a conspicuous failure and everything that can be invented has been invented already. All of these statements have been made in the past by people considered at the time to be experts.
History is littered with inventions and ideas now taken for granted which were once considered weird, unusable, unpopular and - in some cases - the work of some form of witchcraft or sorcery. It is perhaps best summed up by the actor Sir Peter Ustinov, who said: "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. " So what else have the experts got wrong and who got it right? The iPad was heavily hyped at its launch but some analysts worried that it slipped between the gaps of what consumers wanted and therefore would not be widely used. Inventors and Inventions: A. Advertisement. EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site.
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