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
• Microsoft showcase page [1]

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

1 1950-59

• GM A future vision of driverless cars (1956) [2] - features in car dashboard display
• GM promotional film about future of kitchens "Design for dreaming" (1956) and Monsanto "House of the future" (1957) [3]

2 1960-69

• UK Post Office "A glance 30 years ahead" (1960s) [4] - updated URL 3/7/2015
• AT&T "The challenge of change" (1961) [5]
• Mother of All Demos (1968) [6]
• The Internet in 1969 [7]

3 1970-79

• 1979 Xerox Parc - Office Alto Commercial [8] - some visionary elements

4 1980-89

• Apple "Knowledge Navigator" (1987) [9]
• Apple "Futureshock" (1988) [10]
• Ameritech "The electronic home" (1988) [11]
• AT&T "Pandora envisionment" (1989) [12]

5 1990-99

• Sun Microsystems "Starfire", including making of (1992) [13]
• AT&T "View of the future" (1993) [14]
  • Blog post on the above video 10 Things Tom Selleck and ATT Got Right
• Microsoft Smart Home (circa 1999) [15]

6 2000-09

• Hewlett Packard "Cool Town" (2000) [16]
• Motorola "New life forms - Always connected" (2001) [17]
• Motorola "New life forms - Others' eyes" (2001) [18]
• Motorola "New life forms - Hearing hand" (2001) [19]
• Motorola "New life forms - Shared knowledge" (2001) [20]
• Motorola "New life forms - Life recorder" (2001) [21]
• Motorola "New life forms - Mood hood" (2001) [22]
• Ludwig Zeller design fictions, RCA (2011) [23] (also see [24])
• Aura (CMU) - (circa 2002) [25]
• Microsoft future vision of banking (2005) [26]
• Nokia "888 comunicator concept phone" (2005) [27]
• IBM RFID commercial "The future market" (2006?) [28]
• World Builder (2007) [29] short sci-fi movie
• Microsoft future vision of retail (2009) [30]
• Microsoft future vision of productivity (2009) [31]
• Intel "Imagine - 15 billion intelligent connected devices" (2009) [32]
• Microsoft future vision of manufacturing (2009) [33] MS Showcase
• Crazy morphing suitcase (2009) [34]
• Ginsberg & Pohflepp design fiction video "Growth Assembly" (2009) [35] Project page
• Intel future vision video (2009?) [36]

7 2010-

• Julian Bleecker's design fiction video reel (2010) [37]
• Fujikawa: A Stark Industries Subsidiary "Stack Hud 2020" (2010) [38]
• Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop (2010) [39] (See recent kickstarter [40])
• TAT's "Future of screen technology" (2010) [41]
• Siemens "The future of building technology (2010) [42]
• Cisco "The future of shopping" (2010) [43]
• Corning "A day made of glass" (2011) [44]
• Microsoft future vision of office work (2011) [45]
• Samsung AMOLED screen technology vision (2011) [46]
• Sony "Futurescapes" videos (2011) [47]
• Blackberry "Enterprising Minds: Exceptional Customer Service" (2011) [48]
• Innotribe design fiction video "Fly me to the moon" (2011) [49]
• Paypal "Future of shopping" (2011) [50] - updated URL 3/7/2015
• New York Times R&D "Reveal project" (2011) [51]
• Ericsson "The social web of things" (2011) [52]
• Toyota "Window to the world" (2011) [53]
• Superflux "Song of the machine" (2011) [54]

• Nokia Research Center "Future technologies" (2011)[55]
• Ericsson "The social web of things II" (2012) [56]
• Microsoft future vision of healthcare (2012) [57]
• Google Project Glass "One day" video (2012) [58]
• Internet of Things EU - Information Society and Media Directorate-General "Imagine everything was linked" (2012?) [59]
• Nordkapp.fi and Urbanscale.org "Urbanflow Helsinki" (2012) [60]
• Short film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo "Sight" (2012) [61]
• Video associated with Global Future 2045 Congress (2012) [62]

Not quite envisioning videos but interesting anyway:

• IBM "Paperwork explosion" (1967) [63]
• Timo "Robot readable world" (2012) [64]