Back in 1995, Bill Gates released a book called The Road Ahead. With the book came a CD that had some videos on it, one of which showed what people thought mobile communications would be like in the future:
You have to bear in mind none of the stuff shown in the video above existed in 1995. How much of it exists now?
Paying with a mobile device? Possible, but not very widespread in the US just yet.
Tablets with real-time video communications? Yes, we have that.
Sharing video on a tablet? Got that too.
Mapping via tablet or other standalone device? Check.
Recording an interview session with a tablet? Do-able.
Having the tablet transcribe spoken word into text in real-time? This is one of the few that’s not do-able, or put more accurately not do-able easily. However it will become much easier in just a few short years.
If you liked the above, check out the predictions for household technology from the same CD.
Does Microsoft still make videos like this?
You bet they do. Here’s the latest on their vision of the future.
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Superb concept and I feel most of it is achievable. In the next decade or so we’ll have such technologies up and running.
it seems like many of those products will be affordable only for the wealthy