A Day Made of Glass

Owen Corning ^

[rjsimmon]

THE FUTURE OF GLASS - "AMAZING"!

If you wonder why HP, Dell and other leading computer manufacturers believe the end of the computer as we know it is near, here’s why.

It's not the iPad that has them concerned about the future.

It is developments like the ones Corning is working on that are game-changers:

[rjsimmon]

This is a truly amazing display of the next wave of technology. This may eventually all come to pass and will shift our society into even more realms of disassociation with others (no more in-person or face-to-face). You may even see Big Brother and the wall from Fahrenheit 451 in this, but the tech is fascinating.

[latina4dubya]

You may even see Big Brother and the wall from Fahrenheit 451 in this, but the tech is fascinating.

ewww! that is what i was thinking!

[outofsalt]

They forgot to include, The Orglassmatron.

Way cool concept vid for a future where we all will live in glass houses.

[Rodamala]

If you plan on living in that world, plan on having plenty of this:

[jeffc]

I don't care who makes it (even Apple), all I really want is a great 3D with realistic, life-like graphics that can handle things like racing games and combat flight games with no lage, even on MP.

Does anyone still make combat flight games? Like Microprose's Gunship from the late 80s?

[jeffc]

lag = lage....

[Alberta's Child]

The technology is amazing, but I'm remarkably unimpressed by most of it. I watch a video clip like that and I see an entire world that is running on "sensory overload" in every way.

I'd have no interest in living in a society where it was considered ordinary to have someone from my office pop a message up on my bathroom mirror while I'm shaving, for example. Can't you just leave me the 'eff alone for five minutes while I'm shaving, dude?

[chrisser]

I was thinking along similar lines.

Apparently there will be the elites enjoying glass-based technology. I presume the plebes will be running behind them with Windex and a soft cloth.

[Terry L Smith]

Too many things that look nice, and have that “oo” factor, but the heck is going to come out and find the one shorted connection, when all of those things start malfunctioning?

A touch-sensitive stovetop control? Can you see the low-information voter using that, and understanding how to use that? Besides, down here in hurricane country, all it would take, would be one good storm, and all the electronics would short out.

A refrigerator in a kitchen occupied by kids, without a smudge on it, somewhere? Please.

Nice, inventive, forward thinking, yes. Practical for the average American household? NO.

[chrisser]

I was thinking along similar lines.

Apparently there will be the elites enjoying glass-based technology. I presume the plebes will be running behind them with Windex and a soft cloth.

[Billthedrill]

How long before this excites the same amused nostalgia the "World of 2000" clips from the 50's now give us? It won't be 50 years. It might not even be 10.

The real world will, of course, find a way to sneak in. There is no bird-poop-proof glass, for example. Just sayin'.

[Vendome]

“Five-O”

[arthurus]

Won’t it be wonderful when every device in your house and all the glass and the very walls are sending information to the government, to your insurance company, to the local police, to all the advertisers in the world, to the pervert sown the street and every hacker who has an interest in what you do and where you go and what you are worth.

[CrazyIvan]

People who live in glass houses................

Should have sex in the basement.

[puppypusher]

If Corning can create fifty percent of the things they showed in that video,they’ll have an awesome future.

[Ramius]

I think it’s remarkable stuff. I’m sure that things like that will all be happening. But the really cool thing is that stuff we wouldn’t even guess today, will be common in another twenty years. Maybe less.

[seeker41]

I agree! Sick of all this contact any hour or minute of the day. I do not want to be reachable all the time-it is getting old.

[Paladin2]

I pretty much view my phone and email foe outgoing messages only.

Don't call me, I'll call you, later.

[imardmd1]

By definition, glass is a supercooled fluid with viscosity so high as to be, for all practical purposes, rigid.

Though glass has many useful properties, the ability to sustain plastic flow is not one of them. It will fracture first.

[BigBobber]

With all those cool displays and connectivity, why does the women need to drive into the office to look at a video conference? She could do that from home...