Vision videos

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There are many marketing, advertising, corporate R&D, and academic research videos which provide visions of the future, or talk about future technologies in a fictional way. There are equally as many purposes for the production of such media materials. This page provides a list of links to the various videos of this type that may be found on the web.

Some general pages which have collated similar lists:

• http://web.media.mit.edu/~intille/teaching/ubicomp-videos/ubicomp-videos.htm
• http://www.mprove.de/script/06/foxp2/visionvideos.html
• http://www.mprove.de/script/04/chi/conceptclips.html
• http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/03/curated-design-fiction-videos-the-videos-every-design-fiction-fan-should-see/
• http://www.paleofuture.com

A list of videos (may include repeats from above pages):

• Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop (2010) [1] (See recent kickstarter [2])
• Aura (CMU) - (circa 2002) [3]
• Apple "Knowledge Navigator" (1987) [4]
• Apple "Futureshock" (1988) [5]
• Corning "A day made of glass" (2011) [6]
• Microsoft future vision of healthcare (2012) [7]
• Microsoft future vision of office work (2011) [8]
• Microsoft future vision of banking (2005) [9]
• Microsoft future vision of manufacturing (?) [10]
• Microsoft future vision of retail (2009) [11]
• Microsoft future vision of productivity (2009) [12]
• Microsoft Smart Home (circa 1999) [13]
• Microsoft showcase page [14]
• AT&T "View of the future" (1993) [15]
  • Blog post on the above video 10 Things Tom Selleck and ATT Got Right
• AT&T "Pandora envisionment" (1989) [16]
• AT&T "The challenge of change" (1961) [17]
• Video associated with Global Future 2045 Congress [18]
• Samsung AMOLED screen technology vision (2011) [19]
• Sony "Futurescapes" videos (2011) [20]
• Blackberry "Enterprising Minds: Exceptional Customer Service" (2011) [21]
• (Not sure of the provenance of this one) Crazy morphing suitcase by sharmeedigitalis [22]
• TAT's "Future of screen technology" (2010) [23]
• Google Project Glass "One day" video (2012) [24]
• Ginsberg & Pohflepp design fiction video "Growth Assembly" [25]
• Hewlett Packard "Cool Town" (2000) [26]
• IBM RFID commercial "The future market" (2006?) [27]
• [28]
• Intel "Imagine - 15 billion intelligent connected devices" (2009) [29]
• Intel future vision video (unknown date) [30]
• Innotribe design fiction video "Fly me to the moon" (2011) [31]
• Internet of Things EU - Information Society and Media Directorate-General "Imagine everything was linked" (2012?) [32]
• Julian Bleecker's design fiction video reel [33]
• GM promotional film about future of kitchens "Design for dreaming" (1956) and Monsanto "House of the future" (1957) [34]
• Sun Microsystems "Starfire", including making of (1992) [35]
• Motorola "New life forms - Always connected" (2001) [36]
• Motorola "New life forms - Others' eyes" (2001) [37]
• Motorola "New life forms - Hearing hand" (2001) [38]
• Motorola "New life forms - Shared knowledge" (2001) [39]
• Motorola "New life forms - Life recorder" (2001) [40]
• Motorola "New life forms - Mood hood" (2001) [41]
• Ludwig Zeller design fictions, RCA (2011) [42] (also see [43])
• Nokia "888 comunicator concept phone" (2005) [44]
• Nokia Research Center "Future technologies" (?)[45]
• Paypal "Future of shopping" (2011) [46]
• UK Post Office "A glance 30 years ahead" (1960s) [47]
• New York Times R&D "Reveal project" (2011) [48]
• Siemens "The future of building technology (2010) [49]
• Short film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo "Sight" (2012) [50]
• Superflux "Song of the machine" [51]
• Ameritech "The electronic home" (1988) [52]
• Cisco "The future of shopping" (2010) [53]
• Ericsson "The social web of things" (2011) [54]
• Ericsson "The social web of things II" (2012) [55]
• Toyota "Window to the world" (2011) [56]
• Watch your day in 2020 () [57]
• Nordkapp.fi and Urbanscale.org "Urbanflow Helsinki" (2012) [58]
• The Internet in 1969 [59]

Not quite envisioning videos but interesting anyway:

• IBM "Paperwork explosion" (1967) [60]
• Timo "Robot readable world" (2012) [61]