The Future We Deserve/The Future of Television - Glenn Hall

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The Future We Deserve

100 Visions of the Future

• Introduction
• Foreword
• Without Divine Justice, Human Rights
• Gods or Goats
• A 'Playbour' of Love for the Next Twenty Years
• Untitled, 2010
• We Deserve A Future Of Good Governance
• The World Needs Wives
• The Food We Deserve
• Rediscovering the Stuff We Forgot to Remember
• Reclaiming Awesome
• Panarchy
• On the Future We Deserve…
• There is No Future
• This is Mental
• Monastech
• The Futures We Deserve or, Even Bankers Might Have Uses
• Memes that Kill
• The Tiny Army
• A Four-Bladed Scissors
• One in Six, a Strategy for Reduction
• Of Arms and the Man
• A Knowing World
• A Picture, a Person, a Time and a Location
• Decline and Fall
• We Deserve to Evolve
• The Knowledge and Action Platform
• The Joy of Open
• 6 Ways to Live
• Solar Photovoltaic Energy Replication
• The Future We Desire
• Zombies and Vampires, Oh My!
• The Future of Information Freedom
• My Vision of the Future
• The Matter of Place
• The Locavores' War: A History of America's Future
• A World in Common
• The Story Our Children Will Tell
• The Abolition of Scarcity
• Cities of Freedom Chariots or Four-wheeled Demons?
• A Healthy and Smiling Planet
• The Earth Charter
• Sex and Singularity in the 21st Century
• The Feet We Deserve
• ...middle...
• If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together. And If You Want to Transform..?
• Just 4, A Macroscale Social Model
• Open Source Appropriate Technology
• Who Will Save Our Souls?
• Art Monasticism
• Personal Futures and Futures Therapy
• Deep Lessons
• Semantic Organization and Connectivity
• The Education We Deserve
• Moving Towards a Post Penal Society
• A Future Without Childhood
• Online Open Distance Learning
• The Future of Television
• Citizen Centred Participation
• The Future We Got–Earth Date Zero Plus Twenty
• The Onion and the Satellite
• Ode to the Tech Fix
• Deserving The Future We Want
• Re-envisioning Our Relationship With Micro-Organisms
• The Spaces We Deserve
• The Age of Warlords Cookbook
• Using Science Locally
• Seed Saving for Local Food Security
• Challenging Education and the "Harry Potter Letter"
• Credibility and Calories, A Perspective on Information
• The Future of Programming
• Higher Education for the Future We Deserve
• A Systemic Revolution, or, the Need for a Post-Scientific Approach
• An Ideal World
• My Ideal Panflu
• Report on the Planet Earth from the Intergalactic Study Group on Worlds in Transition
• A Hypothetical Vision of What the Property Sector in the Future Might Look Like
• The Future is Here
• Hacking Society and a Proposal for Beta Towns
• The Age of Phlight
• Designing the Future
• Collaboration for Introverts
• Hundreds of Sovereign Singapores
• Working Together: Unleashing Collective Intelligence
• Clash for Civilization
• Seawater into Food
• Collapsarithmetic
• Our Future and the Sun
• Bootleg Oil
• Time For Resilient Tribes to Step Up and Show the Way
• The Music We Deserve
• All the World's a Stage
• Success in the Twenty First Century
• On Lying to Children
• We Deserve the Time and Space to Be Human
• Opening the Floodgates
• The Future of Art
• The Human Rite of Living
• No Island is an Island
• Getting The Future We Deserve
• Berlin, Berlin
• We Deserve a Future
• Aftermath - Thinking the Unthinkable. Asking What is Not Asked

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It's 2010, and the space in front of the sofa is free. But is it, can you see the avatar? It's lightly projected and as you move towards it, it moves towards you. It reads your mind. It notices you are tired, and hungry, and thirsty. You wave, and it moves aside, revealing a stream of information about food and drink, and the audio becomes more part of your world. You can smell the coffee, and already feel better. You’re still on the sofa.

You think what I need is the human experience of sharing food, and enjoying the interaction with others, more than the simple task of heating something already prepared. The avatar returns and waves towards spaces in real time, where friends are. One is cooking and turns to smile. And speaks, the avatar gently moves to the side, yet waits alertly for instruction.

You move to your own cooking space, and share your fridge. You hold a camera close to a piece of food, and share it. The avatar beckons, your screen shows people, and food, and menus.

The bell sounds, loudly, the adverts run. Recipes, cookery gizmos, ingredients, wine. Then taxis. You wait. Pizza Delivery. You regret not having the advert free service.

The screen gets brighter, the avatar snaps to attention, it’s the Government. Eat this, cook like that, exercise more. You hit the deliver Pizza button, and click for cold beer. Sports channel on. Alone.

Television? Or our primary in-home communicator. It reads your mind, you don’t choose, it has no channels. It brings you what you want, and what The Government thinks you need.

Yet, Television is a device, a system, a business, a method for enhancing the human experience. It’s now two way, smart, intelligent, responsive, and unseen.

At HP Labs Bristol, in the 1990s, a research project created some internet furniture. It was an ergonomic workstation, yet one version incorporated a Television set. It bridged the connection, between Consumption (viewing) and Creation (response, engagement, sharing.)

Our future, could it be of engagement, not of consumption? Could devices serve us, not control us? Could they be elegant, non intrusive, and not wooden or plastic boxes with glass screens.

Television is a system, for the “Transport of Emotion” it moves human experiences towards us. In our Future we Deserve we will engage, with the interactions, with the people, and above all, we will contribute back.

All of this is possible today.