Kate Moss Hologram - Alexander McQueen Fashion Show a good exemple of a possible future for virtual show, the power of image and the developpement of 3d. Sometimes technology and fashion can become a nice couple. I always believed in. The future is a mix between design and technology. The first step is may be fashion show and designers like Hussein Chalayan, my favorite one.
The photography changed the last ten years with the digital cameras. The media moved from paper to screen but the medium is still the same . From the past to the near future light is fixing on a sensitive plate. Nothing changed exept one thing, photography exist through the video technology and became a part of the video camera. If you have choice between an image and the mouvement. The answer is youtube and other website dedicated to short movies. A painting or a photography need to have a culture to look at, the mouvement is enough for most of the people because TV is the reference. If you look at the 19th century photographies creation was there. Today photography can only be saved by the graphic computering . The next generation will not have nostalgia for the photography. Video will become a part of instant memory, already some young people can not remember what they did 3 days before with out recording.
If robots are becoming a part of our life in a very near future. What will be the purpose, labor, entertainer and beyond mecanic shape is there a robotic life form ? Is humanoide shape a good solution or just a very short vision of the real posthuman world. I do not believe in this solution, the global robotisation is on the way. No more labor strike, no more pain for old worker's body. Robots will develop their own shape, far from human shape.
When I was working on Electrumcorpus concept, i was considering my vision as a preview of the next 10 years. It was in 2002, may be I was not so wrong.Contact lenses with circuits,University of Washington