tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post1205731156271211314..comments2023-11-03T04:29:29.498-04:00Comments on Paleo-Future: Pacific Bell Concept Video (1991)Matt Novakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360406896692501416noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-71005566363648593232008-03-29T00:45:00.000-04:002008-03-29T00:45:00.000-04:00http://www.mprove.de/script/04/chi/conceptclips.ht...http://www.mprove.de/script/04/chi/conceptclips.html<BR/><BR/>Must be called "First Born" (scroll down to 93)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-52030693198061434962007-11-05T08:36:00.000-05:002007-11-05T08:36:00.000-05:00It's interesting that Pacific Bell didn't even mak...It's interesting that Pacific Bell didn't even make it to 2003 under that name. The video isn't too bad - though it turned out technology didn't advance quite that rapidly - the wide and flat screens shown are only just now becoming widespread and only quite wealthy people would have a wallscreen that big unless it were projected. So yes, we can do most of what was in the video even if a few years late...the trouble is that it turned out people don't want to.<BR/><BR/>The doctor in his robe shows the problem with video calls. Who really wants to talk to and be seen by a co-worker half-awake? Who wants to have to have perfectly clean rooms all the time in case they'll be in the background of your video calls?<BR/><BR/>As it turns out, people don't want to control their computers by voice - point-and-click is more efficient. Nobody wants to handwrite rather than type where there's an option. There has been no popular merger of voice mail and e-mail. <BR/><BR/>The big thing they missed was the availability and power of portable devices, though this might be due to the business at the time, with cell phones being a rather smaller part of it than they are now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com