Microsoft’s private-cloud utopian future: hover chairs, jetboots and flower-caring robots

[Steve]

Compared to the more grounded Productivity Vision videos, these ads for Microsoft's private cloud solutions are definitely a bit of a stretch in the Utopian sci-fi direction. Ignoring the obvious consequences of the grandfather paradox implied in these scenarios, it scores perfectly on the checklist of a Utopia. White curvy buildings, check. Flying cars, check. [...]

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