I've seen the future and it works....

My daughter got back from school and showed me this YouTube clip which had been shown to them in class. It's Corning's vision of the future with glass at the heart of it.

Watching this just made me realise how far we have evolved, as humans, since the beginning of creation. Did the cavemen who huddled together with brown sticks and brown stones, lighting fires to keep warm, EVER imagine that the world would get to this level of sophistication???

Just how have we evolved though?

We encounter glass in so many different ways in our daily lives.

• Entertainment - We eat with glass plates and drink from glass cups.
• Furniture - We furnish our house with glass – tables, refrigerator, stoves, ovens
• Illumination - We illuminate our house with glass chandeliers and glass bulbs.
• Engineering - We drive cars that have a glass accessories and parts – mirrors, lights.
• Lifestyle - We decorate our houses with glass ornaments.
• Fashion - We wear glass as ornaments or glasses.

This video however takes glass beyond the basic uses that we know and transforms this usage through unique, ingenious creativity, with the clever use of communication, technology and explosive ‘thinking-outside-the-box’, into Corning's vision of the future.

Every counter top now performed multiple roles and data was being transmitted with ease (with the cellphone at the core of all that communication)

• From telephone to countertop, so the kids could speak to Grandma
• From telephone to office desk, so the designs could be imported
• From busstop to telephone, so traffic data could be uploaded and taken away

One thing I couldn’t get past, was the clean and smooth lines in the video. Is that how squeaky clean the future is going to be? The ease and speed with which the data is being transferred is also remarkable. How fast is the speed of the network that will carry all this data, so seamlessly? I’d die to see what their data centre looks like to be able to carry and maintain all that information.

 I'd love to be around to see Corning's vision of the future (surely, it can't be that far away).....wouldn’t you?