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A Day Made of Glass
Owen Corning ^
Posted on 03/19/2014 6:15:04 PM PDT by 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, heres 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:
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: computers; glass; innovation; technology
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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.
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:15:04 PM PDT
by
rjsimmon
To: rjsimmon
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!
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:19:19 PM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: rjsimmon
They forgot to include, The Orglassmatron.
Way cool concept vid for a future where we all will live in glass houses.
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:22:17 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: rjsimmon
If you plan on living in that world, plan on having plenty of this:
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:25:19 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: rjsimmon
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?
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:35:23 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: jeffc
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:36:07 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: rjsimmon
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?
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:37:30 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
To: Rodamala
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.
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:40:49 PM PDT
by
chrisser
(Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
To: rjsimmon
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.
To: Rodamala
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.
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:42:45 PM PDT
by
chrisser
(Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
To: rjsimmon
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'.
To: rjsimmon
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posted on
03/19/2014 6:54:19 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: rjsimmon
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.
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posted on
03/19/2014 7:02:30 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: rjsimmon
People who live in glass houses................
Should have sex in the basement.
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posted on
03/19/2014 7:05:53 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
To: rjsimmon
If Corning can create fifty percent of the things they showed in that video,they’ll have an awesome future.
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posted on
03/19/2014 7:14:04 PM PDT
by
puppypusher
( The World is going to the dogs.)
To: puppypusher
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.
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posted on
03/19/2014 7:54:01 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: Alberta's Child
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.
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posted on
03/19/2014 7:59:37 PM PDT
by
seeker41
(take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
To: seeker41
I pretty much view my phone and email foe outgoing messages only.
Don't call me, I'll call you, later.
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posted on
03/19/2014 8:14:53 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: rjsimmon
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.
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posted on
03/19/2014 9:14:21 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: rjsimmon
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...
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