Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Nov 2009 00:24 UTC
Whether you like Microsoft or not, the Redmond giant does have one thing going for it: the company's research division. Working together with several universities and other institutions, Microsoft Research works on the soft and hardware of the future, ranging from research operating systems to insanely cool things like what Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie showed off during the Microsoft College Tour '09 (more videos).
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You're right. As Quato said (in Total Recall), "Free your mind, Quaid." If you're going to dream about the future, don't start with what you have today -- think about what you would like. Current interfaces (eg. the desktop) use physical/spacial metaphors to represent data. A friend of mine refers to the desktop as his "alternate junk drawer". But there's no reason you can't think in other terms -- temporal, for example ... using a timeline. While we have a tough time visualizing how useful that would be, it was completely useful in "Minority Report" because they were essentially sifting through temporal data. Yale computer scientist has been working on this concept for years. He calls it "Lifestreams". Check it out. Worth reading, if you're interested in this sort of thing...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams_pr.html