[LINK] IBM, Intel, And Microsoft Tout Technology Future

[David Boxall]

I reckon the juxtaposition of Windows Vista and artificial intelligence 
(at the bottom of the first page) must be somebody's idea of a joke.
<http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199201618>

...
"photo-realistic virtual words rendered on the fly, desktop file 
manipulation using hand gestures, and presence information relayed by 
ubiquitous sensors"
...
"real-time rendering, said Battista, requires about five quad-core 
machines running together for a 20 frame-per-second playback rate. 
Intel's 80-core prototype 
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197005384> 
thus represents more or less the processing threshold to render reality 
as it happens"
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"Horvitz also showed off surface computing, which is a way to turn any 
surface into a computer display and input device. A video presentation 
depicted a lunch box-sized motion tracking and projection unit that 
created a useable, projected keyboard and projected photos that can be 
manipulated."
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And, worryingly:
"Everyone in the future -- and the future is not that far off -- will be 
sensorized."

-- 
David Boxall                    |  When a distinguished but elderly
                                 |  scientist states that something is
                                 |  possible, he is almost certainly
                                 |  right. When he states that
                                 |  something is impossible, he is
                                 |  very probably wrong.
                                                   --Arthur C. Clarke