You might have figured that out about me, I’ve been a fan since even before the original .Net launch vision videos. Well, Office Labs dropped out another one of them last week – you can see the envisioning video here or the full series here. There’s a lot in there.
The only thing I missed was wearable computing – the flexible displays and Augmented Reality messages are the first thing that jumps out, but after you look at it for a while, you start seeing that pervasive P2P in the data sharing, the pervasive connectivity, the seamless and solid Identity management and access control. The scary part to me is how close we are to having this level of infrastructure in at least islands today (even the flexible displays and smart environments exist in at least a primitive form now) but how much work we have to making this level of different systems from different vendors work so seamlessly for the end user. But it WILL happen – we just have a lot of work to do to get there.
If you liked the videos, you can also find the slides that Stephen Elop used to talk to these points at the Wharton Business Tech Conference keynote week or watch his full presentation here.
