Comments on: Productivity Future Vision (2011) https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/ Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:58:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Paul Murray https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509339 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:58:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509339 Notice that none of these people actually makes anything, or does anything physical.

Also: I find it horrific, that you are expected to work 24 hours a day.

]]> By: BJN https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509338 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:40:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509338 Yawn. Why is everything in the future controlled by the iron fist of a single art director? Why is the music the iTunes version of Muzak? This is a vision of hell.

]]> By: Andrei L https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509337 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:05:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509337 seems the future is either tamper-proof, or people are all encrypted with some sort of society-induced PITA. Overall, great ideas, however I am still waiting for the day.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509336 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:44:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509336 It was painfully boring; couldn’t they make it just 30s? Transparent electronics and displays that operate to their edge … suuuure.

@Dave X: Unfortunately, as with the CDs, it seems that corrupted DVDs are being produced which don’t work well with VLC+libdvdcss. And now there’s Blu-Ray, with even less choice than ever.

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509335 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:58:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509335 Battery runs out when you fall asleep on plane playing tetris. Upon arrival at Johannesburg Airport, all shops are closed and you don’t have the proper plug. You have no idea what hotel your reservation is for, nor where your meeting is the next day. You try to call home but your battery is dead.

–bks

]]> By: Dave X https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509334 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:55:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509334 #2 just happened to me.

Slightly OT: Watching a DVD last night with VLC, I noticed that it completely skipped the FBI warning that the other device with the dying battery forced me to wait through. Open Source, because it only works right if you can do it yourself.

]]> By: Marina https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509333 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:34:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/30/productivity-future-vision-201/#comment-509333 The only way that I can see this occurring is if the entire thing is maintained as a separate-from-the-internet, government-funded infrastructure and identity is confirmed via fingerprint or other bio-geometric scanning that actually works.

Otherwise, yes.

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