According to istartedsomething and Steve Clayton, Microsoft’s ‘Business Division President’ Stephen Elop ‘premiered’ the ‘future vision 2019‘ in a presentation at the Wharton Business Technology Conference in February.
The video was created by Microsoft’s Office Labs from some pre-existing “future vision of…” videos, which I’ve blogged before, and a few new snippets added into the mix. It appears that Elop’s presentation, provocatively entitled ‘a glimpse ahead’, makes explicit reference to both practices of forecasting and to ubicomp:
On the Live Labs’ page for the video there are also some interesting statements about how they envision the future:
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