Here is a brief compendium of the "reflections of tomorrow" for as many films about the future brought out by the entertainment industry. In parentheses what they anticipated and predicted.
Some technological gadgets of June 2020, emblematic also for understanding the trends that are preparing.
40 years after Star Wars, 3D holograms still look like things from science fiction. But if we ask ourselves what the state of the art of holographic technology is in reality, we find that it has never been closer.
Many live events have been moved to a digital version. This change in approach has led everyone to reconsider how large-scale audiences are reached. Here are some ways to rethink virtual events in the time of the coronavirus.
In times of financial crisis (present and above all future) it is necessary to plan the currency of the future. Can digital money fill gaps in physical money?
Nothing is created or destroyed, but everything is transformed. Especially in advertising. But the publicity of the future will change a lot, until it disappears. Such as? Here are some scenarios.
You wake up and go to your business appointment, then say goodbye to your client and go get dressed. No, you don't do the oldest job in the world, but the newest: to collaborate you enter virtual worlds.
Windowless planes have a nacelle lined with OLED screens that will provide a view inside the aircraft of what is happening outside.
The super secret Samsung Neon project is about to reveal itself at the CES2020 which opens on January 7th. And from the first images it seems much more than a simple assistant.
In “His Dark Materials”, the new HBO series, they perform ordinary service. In our reality no. But airships are making a serious comeback.
Some time ago, there was talk of possible bookshops or shops opened by Amazon, at least in America: today that dream has become reality. The first #Amazon Go opened in Seattle for an experiment, a #supermarket where you enter with your cell phone and leave without paying. Or rather, thanks to Amazon's sophisticated technology, everything we take and take away will then automatically be charged to our credit card. Without queuing, queuing or taking out a thousand coins. I… Read more
The new Facebook at Work platform is about to see the light after years of preparation (and hypotheses about its functioning)
According to Mark Zuckerberg, the future in ten years will be increasingly virtual. Between video chats, holograms, augmented reality viewers and robots to chat with, here is the vision of the future of the man who created an Internet giant (even if at the moment he is not sailing in excellent waters, given the decline in shares and activity of social media users). According to Mark, therefore, we will soon be inundated with videos, we will use chats to access any type of service and all... Read more
We are approaching the 'mimetic' era in which devices will not simply recognize our words, our actions, our objects but will begin to reproduce these things in three dimensions. The device that we show you in the video is the result of the work of Keiichi Matsuda, a Japanese architect and filmmaker who has been studying applications and installations based on the interaction between sensors and servomotors for years (in the photograph there is a frame of his previous work based on reality increased). This is a 'morphic' table... Read more
In the days that mark the fall of the Berlusconi government and the Italian economic crisis (remember? we predicted it on the old site) I am as disheartened as all of you. The moment is difficult: we can only get out of it if all levels of our country change by looking to the future more than to the past. Some jobs will still survive in the future, let's be clear: but there is a whole series of jobs that don't exist today and which could be useful in the near future. Let's go with common sense: 60%... Read more
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