A look at the future! Corning Glass's story.

[Lynn K.]

I noticed there was no textile in the video. Does that mean that in the future, we won't have the pleasure of working with our hands?

Sure hope not! But this is an awesome video anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v...&vq=medium

I might as well go to "Everything Else" automatically when I log in. I seem to find the strangest things! And you all appreciate them too! Thanks.

Lynn

[Susan B.]

It looked ultra-high tech and quite sterile to me. Did you notice the 2010 copyright? I'm so glad my kids have an appreciation for quilts, texture and hands-on.

[Rita C.]

Interesting! She did buy an 'applique' blouse though. :wink: I also noticed that she switched to the other side of the bed in the evening. Who does that in real life? :lol: Thanks for posting Lynn.

[Margo C.]

Can you believe that??? :shock: She has a husband who cooks breakfast!! :lol: :lol:

Actually, I really like some of the innovations but I also think it looks very sterile.

[Rita C.]

They just need to make it more realistic by having things like their kids shoes strewn on the floor in front of the sofa, bowls, plates and glasses hanging off the arms of the sofa (despite the kids being told not to eat or drink there) and a few schoolbags on the floor and coats hanging off chairs. Then it would look just like my house. :lol:

[Renata L.]

Okay, count me as weird, but I really like the high tech, modern, sleek house--it does not fit my lifestyle today but I could see myself in it. As for man in the kitchen, I'm a lucky one--not only breakfast, but any meal I don't feel like preparing... which is a lot lately since I took up quilting :shock: ... and DH is an excellent cook. He also designed our new kitchen a few years ago with function and style in mind and I still love walking into our contemporary, but warm-looking kitchen. Hey, Rita, you don't need kids to leave stuff strewn around the house... I can do that pretty well too! :lol:

[E.M. T.]

All that tech-y stuff is amazing ! When I was a kid...mini screens were on Dick Tracys' wrist !! and
computers were Orwel= ian ! HUMMMMbug ! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[karen f.]

Eewww! I hope not.

[Lynn K.]

It's so interesting to me the different things people notice!

I didn't see the bed change, the applique blouse. I was so busy watching them enlarge every flat surface picture I was spellbound. Even though I think I also have seen it before, it gives pause about the world we live in, technology, and even the recent events in CN.

I too love my technology, and depend on it more than I'd like to admit, but as a culture, I fear without cognizant focus on 'connecting at a human' level, we are creating 'person damage' we have yet to grasp.

On that happy note, I bid you all 'adieu!'

Lynn

[Margo C.]

It's so interesting to me the different things people notice!

I didn't see the bed change, the applique blouse. I was so busy watching them enlarge every flat surface picture I was spellbound. Even though I think I also have seen it before, it gives pause about the world we live in, technology, and even the recent events in CN.

I too love my technology, and depend on it more than I'd like to admit, but as a culture, I fear without cognizant focus on 'connecting at a human' level, we are creating 'person damage' we have yet to grasp.

On that happy note, I bid you all 'adieu!'

Lynn

I absolutely agree, Lynn. I think it's sad to see a group of people sitting at a table in a restaurant and all of them are engrossed in texting other people!!

However, I don't see anything wrong with my spending hours at home alone, glued to my laptop staying in touch with my virtual friends! :roll:

[Lynn K.]

Ha ha ha! Yep. I sometimes wonder too. When I tell my "in person" friends that I have an e-friend of 3-4 years either in the quilter realm or the 'women with heart disease' realm, they look at me like I'm nuts!

[Lynn K.]

E-friends are great, but we do need to remember to go out into the real world and connect with people in a face to face encounter. If we can actually manage to meet up with e-friends even better.

Everyone being online whilst out at a restaurant with 'friends' is exceedingly rude in my book.

My brother's MIL has a super sterile house and he used to admire it when he was still courting his now wife. Funny thing is his house is much more like my parents than her parents'! (they don't do books, we most certainly do)

[Lotti D.]

I absolutely agree, Lynn. I think it's sad to see a group of people sitting at a table in a restaurant and all of them are engrossed in texting other people!!

Actually, i've noticed that quite often they text each other... Apparently it's so much easier to talk to each other in text, than actually using their vocal chords...

And though we communicate on a virtual medium, I certainly consider you all as very much living, breathing actual and very important friends...

Hugs to you all...

By the way, it's now past midnight in Central Europe and we're still very much here... So I hope to wake up to a world still going strong

Hugs to you all. :P

[Jill B.]

And once many years ago we thought the TV show called "The Jetsons" was just a silly cartoon 8) 8) 8) ........

[Catherine S.]

I liked some of the ideas in the video, but I would much rather have a car like Kitt in the Knight Rider series. When I am finished shopping it could pick me up at the door, and I could snooze all the way home, or browse a quilt magazine, or play with my new fabric purchases. Of course, I an not a very techy person. I do not text. Just call me and I will be happy to talk. Nor do I do facebook. I don't mind looking at some of the pics my kids show me of their facebook friends, but I like some privacy. Just call me an old fashioned granny. Oh that won't work, I don't bake cookies either. :lol:
As far as the side of the bed goes, my DH even knows which side is mine when we are in a hotel. Yep, old granny, set in her ways!!!