A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked. The Story Behind Corning's Vision. (2012) 

Hi Corning 🙋🏼‍♀️ Just want to let you guys know that I saw this video 8 years ago, and it inspired me so much that I started studying computer science and am currently working on some potentially world changing ideas in AI. It was all thanks to this video!!

Imagine how you're talking to children: "Turn off the glass and go sleep!"

Thanks for your comments, Everyone - we've been waiting for them to come in too! RU-vid had a bit of a data backlog happening when we launched this video. Glad to see we're back in action and thanks for being patient with us!

Blown away by this. Hope to live long enough to see that happening.

It doesnt matter how silly some stuff might look like, these videos are very important for us. Mostly to inspire a more wide amount of people.

Wow this is amazing he can even freeze time!

Imagine running through the woods at night not seeing the glass and smashing your face into it. That would hurt. ALOT.

@SeagullCat3 Hi There! Thanks for watching! As the video explains, many of these technologies are in place or are being deployed today. While it is difficult to project exactly when certain ideas will be in use on a mass scale, we at Corning are optimistic about many of these ideas touching people's lives very, very soon. Thanks again for your interest. Stay curious and be sure to share the video with your friends! :-)

Thank you, Corning, for making this presentation and for working on these interactive large scale glass displays. The future is going to be wonderful.

Some questions that come to mind are- How will the environment react to all of this, and will it it affect the natural habitats these animals? Also, what about privacy...will the authorities be able to now track and watch your every move? Besides these two cons, the idea behind this is amazing and frankly great. But, do the pros outweigh the cons in the long run?

anybody read the novel 1984 if so i have one word: telescreen

This is the type of world one would like to teach in! Complete shift in the way we perceive education, from the mundane text based with an attempt to integrate technology to an innovative pedagogical approach that broadens both the education sector, academics as well as students.

finger prints everywhere

Good time to go into the window cleaning business! lol

@SeagullCat3 Wonderful! Thank you for sharing with your class! So glad you all enjoyed!

"frozen" guy's thumb twitched at 8:05. busted lol

This is really cool. I think the seamless integration of technology in functional spaces like the closet, counter and activity table just makes sense. There are many products that already have similar capabilities, but I am excited to see how this concept is refined in the next decade.

awe~some!! .. I can't wait!! . wish my classroom was like this one!

We agree with so many of you that the music in the “A Day Made of Glass 2” video is fabulous! Thanks to all for your interest! It's a piece that was composed exclusively for this video, so unfortunately, we cannot make it available to the public for download.

I love the idea The future is not green it is transparent

Where's the 2013 video? 2014 video? 2015? Come on, Corning, make more videos.

Dude, I want to go to a class like that o-o

Surface computing taken to the next level. Great video by Corning!

I'm waiting for this since 2012

Lol, I was 8 when I first saw this way back in 2012, and now RU-vid has recommended this to me. Now, I'm a few months away from turning 17, and in retrospect, a lot of these things are completely impractical (like fr, a glass wall in a National Park? Did the weather disappear in the future? And don't you have to clean that too for the "aesthetically pleasing look" lol), but back in 2012, 8 year old me was blown away by this stuff, and I was so excited for the future. Funny how your view of the same thing can change with time and age. Also, I love how they thought home buttons would stick around in the future LOL

Imagine how easy it would be to hack a car lol

One thing that concerns me is batteries. These tablets will be heavily used for many hours a day. How will that level of power consumption be sustained?

The best thing about this video is that you guys are honest about the things that are possible and the things that arent possible.. I like honesty in truth.

What happened to all this, it was big, but it's the end of 2016, where is it?

What is the background music?

This future is coming. Truly, I feel lucky being born into this era of humanity.

A company that sees the benefit of shared information and software... Jeez, that's refreshing.

I love corning now

I'm liking how you make sure to say that all these devices have a low energy footprint, but I wonder about the manufacturing of your glass, surely this in itself is an energy intensive process? Does the low energy footprint of these devices help to balance the production cost of such glass? I also like how your new technologies suggest a greater community and social interaction, instead of being a factor in isolating people. However, in the classroom for example when the children are playing with colour on the interactive glass table, I do wonder what will happen to actual physical paints and the fun children experience by getting messy. Is your vision one where only technology is used in the classroom or is your vision one where technology enhances and improves the experiences that children already have in schools? That video conference wall idea is spectacular, I'd like to see that in many more places than hospitals, the fact that it is fully interactive is brilliant. Using glass as part of a sterile environment is also a great idea, but again, I wonder how much it would cost, both money and environment wise, to create such large amounts of glass with different properties. The glass wall on the kids school trip is also a fantastic idea, I would have wanted one of those when I was a child and it saves on the use of paper leaflets that, at the end of such trips, just get thrown away. Hopefully these glass screens would not be everywhere though, as it's just as important for kids to experience the outdoors without technology interfering! One of the massive problems with all of this is, as you mentioned, bandwidth for all of these great ideas. Another is storage/device memory, with what you're talking about those glass tablets would require massive amounts of data storage onboard, unless it uploaded everything that happened in a kids day to the net/cloud in which case the devices would need stupidly fast broadband! Obviously Corning Inc. are already thinking on the things I have mentioned and you guys are obviously thinking big by the sounds of it, just always make sure that you remember that technology should enhance an experience and not replace it; it seems like you're getting that bit right anyway for now! Keep creating brilliant solutions, thinking big for our future and making sure that whatever you do is green and good for the planet!

I really don't need to be bombarded by information every second of the day. This vision of the future seems very overwhelming.

Its not just amazing, but is absolutely astounding! At first sight, I enjoyed visualizing the technology possibilities, but watching again, and in particular seeing "A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked. The Story Behind Corning's Vision" video much greater understanding of the entire Corning vision impacted me! The commentary and explanations of this superbly created video (and acted so excellently by all) made much greater sense - and viewers must not miss this section! Bravo, Corning -thanks!

Many versions of this video are being posted on RU-vid with titles such as 'life in the 2030's" or "a day in 2030".This has nothing to do with 2030's technologies. This is simply sensitive touch intelligent glass. We already have some of this technology today, it is just not for the consumer market yet and the main reason is cost.More accurately, this video represent scenario for 2018-2022 period, at the latest.The 2030's will usher in much more advanced technologies that we can only dream of today. By the 2030's we will have the following:1. General Artificial Intelligence (such as in the movie "Her"). This is what Google and dozens of other giant tech companies are working on feverously today and pouring hundreds of millions of dollars. Once we reach general artificial intelligence in the 2030's, this will radically disrupt the concept of employment, education, manufacturing, communication, health care and transportation. Reaching AGI will simply be a disruptive event. And you can bet by the 2030's we will reach this point.2. Biotechnology revolution in 2030's will allow medical miracles in healthcare. We will have individualized medicine, nanobots in our bodies to keep us healthy and detect and destroy cancers and other diseases. We will have our personal genomes scanned and analyzed individually. We will start to reprogram our biology away from diseases and begin to alter genes that cause diseases, aging, and other unwanted mutations. Healthcare of the 2030's due to biotechnology will seem almost like magic to a human being from 2015 and earlier.3. Robotics and nanotechnology of the 2030s will allow 100 % autonomous driving (where you can actually enter your destination and sleep while the car gets you to your intended destination). Car ownership will dramatically decline and will see autonomous vehicles used by Uber and Lyft where you can request them via an app and take you to your destination without a driver. transportation will become like a utility, will use it when we need it, of course autonomous, no driving for the human occupant. We will also have intelligent robots whether in humanoid form or not that can do most of the work a human can do and will see them everywhere. Also ubiquitous computing will be a reality and the beginning of holograms and 100% virtual reality that will replace teleconferencing of today with telepresence.All of what I have mentioned is being worked on TODAY, by tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Etc. So to title this video as technologies of the 2030's is simply laughable. Whenever I discuss technology and science progress as related to the next two decades 2020's and 2030's, I firmly believe and say that by the mid 2030's technology would be so advanced that compared to today it would be the same as comparing 2015 to 1940. And once we reach the 2040's, well, its a new era of transhumanism.

I can see myself breaking my tablet in 1 day. lol

I am not only impressed by Corning's vision of the future, but beyond this by their keen understanding of the value and the trend of integrated services to marry art and humanities and provide end customers with outstanding customer experience capable of sustaining strong repeaters.

This stuff is supposed to be released around 2040!!!! I can't wait!!

I see lots of possibilities for special needs kids with this

i dont know, despite having used a computer for a great portion of my life, im very skeptical about stuff like this.. what problems does this address exactly? but no doubt will all these things sell like crazy.

Jude Law as the narrator would have been insane - similar accent, a lot more talent. ;) These videos nearly move me to tears - the future is so bright. We are all VERY lucky to be a part of this!

I live in Portugal and I hope that this country is best to have all this technology

Say "Hello" to the Jetsons!

I want to go back to my life without all this and I want to live in my grandmother's village playing with the goats donkeys and chickens and with friends in the forest.Screw that tech

This is one of the best videos i have ever seen. Well done Corning. Better yet, BRILLIANT... I've developed some Apps for something very similar in my country. I've also developed the hardware for it as well. But like you said, it's pretty expensive at the moment, but the costs to develop this on a larger scale is slowly, but surely, coming down. Thank you Corning.

ive seen this video like (10 times ) and it never gets old

omg this shit sounds so f'ing creapy! Its giving a panic attack

It all looks so clean and polished, but in reallity its just going to be oily fingerprints on everything. Also, they are apparently working on a touch screen toilet seat.

What heady stuff! Possibility makers! I am reminded of when the internet was first born and no one could imagine that it could be possible - there really was no interest. The naysayers were many. Corning has helped us all put on our thinking caps and dream again about a perhaps not too distant future…I like! Sarah D Johnson

weird to look back on

okay everything's made of glass and what happens if we ever have earthquake

this year is 2014

I'm young and used to all this technological advancement stuff... but THIS?? Wowww.

that hypnotic piano. intense

UES estuvo aqui :v

Here in 2019 ... we don’t got shit like this y’all were tripping 😂

This looks like a beautiful vision of the 'near' future... But that 3d projection/holographic tech is more than decades away. Gotta love how these type of videos overestimate the possible development of tech in the near future. Although it could just be optimistic.

Recently I went on a tour of the Versailles palace. In the 1400's Louis XIV was the wealthiest man in Europe. He had access to all comforts/conveniences available in that era. Today even low & working class individuals have more creature comforts than he did - central heat, A/C, refrigeration, radio, TV, phones, stoves, flush toilets, running water, microwaves ... the list goes on and on. I have no doubt that someday this technology will be available widely and inexpensively for everyone.

All of that school s*** sounds good, but, what about the pen and pencil?? I do want to have this technology, but I don't want to depend entirely on it. I still want to have access to pen / pencil / paper. I'm pretty sure that staring at these screens all day long will probably cause either a headache, or eventually screw our vision (needing to wear...CORNING GLASSES) D:

That's alot of radiation...

That teacher's chalkboard was the BOMB! CRAZY!!! 😁😁😁 Hope this will be applied to reading classical literature and "old fashioned" subjects!!!

It's amazing how they related this technology to the 2 most important things in life, which is Education & Medical Services.

Can you make a video featuring high school topics? Not colors and dinosaurs but handwritten notes, science experiments? I just cant imagine learning with all this advanced technology

... Seriously ... HOW CAN SOMEONE DISLIKE THIS.

Good to see Good News for the Future stories... in the times where media, sensationalists and politicians communicate negativity... this is excellent! Thank you Corning =)

what made me so happy...is to know that in this (well the future) I am the parent and the children are my kids and we live in this awesome world of glass ^^

medically thats great that they can get a specialist opinion on something from anywhere

LOVE IT!!! showed part one 2 everyone this is even better!!!

see the first one (A Day Made of Glass... Made Possible by Corning) and it has two flexible displays. One is shown to be used for floor plans (architecture, interior design) and the other for reading a book. =)

This is great but they only touch upon one type of smart glass. There are many types including SPD smart glass. Electrochromic glass takes many minutes to change while SPD technology changes in seconds and has many more features than electrochromic. Both exists today. It is seen in Mercedes Benz Magic Sky Control.

This video makes me so excited. Let's see how far we get this in the next ten years.

The general consensus is that this type of technology on a scale not dissimilar to this will be available to the public in the next 20 years or so.

The optical technology shown in the New Zealand TV Series "This is Not My Life", shows off one amazing cellphone. We in NZ thought at the time we watched the series that the technology would be common place in 5 to 10 years.

I even remember you... time travel, practical application

This is sooooo amazing ❤❤

So Amazing, Brilliant, Beautiful. Can't wait.

Еще 10 лет назад такие технологии казались фантастикой, далеким будущем. Посмотрев это видео, я вдруг понял, что это далекое будущее не такое и далеко. Оно уже здесь, совсем рядом. Ведь большинство технологий уже изобретено, а те, что нет - будут реализованы в самое ближайшее время. Просто удивительно как быстро меняется мир.

I show this video to my Robotics students to inspire them. Gotta say it works! We might have inspired some future engineers.

wow, i love technology! i wish i could be around something like this!

Wow, the future is truly here!

Looks so awesome, I hope I'll still be in one piece when it comes out.

My language arts teacher showed us this vdeo today.It was awesome~

sweeeet!! now i can have a blue car on monday, a red one on tuesday, green on wednesday...etc or i can change the colour to match my shirt or tie!!!! Simply awesome!!!

I find this comment humorous to a degree, the applications of glass are staggering. From what you've seen above to self-cleaning, temperature regulation the possibilities are huge. F Further more glass is made primarily out of sand which we have lots of, and by the time we even start to develop and see this on large scales we will be "gods" and running out of material will not really matter to us for a very long time.

Wow!!!!!!! Its scary how technology evolves so fast. Lets hope its gonna be for good.

This is the future! Everyone should get ready because it is real and it coming faster that you think. Many Kudos to Corning you are doing it right!

You guys make me want future really really bad.

Hopefully more of whatever we please. Put our human capabilities into efforts that can't be replaced by technology. Philanthropy, maybe?

10:20 I'm surprised the popcorn bowl didn't have a button to heat the popcorn! But this is outstanding... I can't believe we are close to achieving all of this and might actually live in a world like the one in this video!

i watched the original video in school today. the teacher said they already had this in japan. i shouted out "i want to go to japan. NOW!"

From everything I have seen with these displays the best way to transfer data is to use WiMax. Because it doesn't need to send it very far just within the same room or within the same distance as a Class 2 Bluetooth transceiver. I am a die hard techie and love seeing the possibilities of what can be done with new techniques and technology. I would love to see move videos with where you are at in creating these new innovations.

"The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it." -Chinese proverb

Corning's Checklist to make this correct 1. Touchscreen devices by 2013 2. Connecting them to other things by 2017 3. Displays Everywhere by 2023

wow, i can't wait for technology like this and with how advanced places like school will be i can just imagine how advanced video games technology will be, and i'm only 12 so i can't wait to see the world transform into something this amazing. good luck i really hope Corning can pull it off

This is nearest than we can imagine, I think that in 10 years almost everybody is gonna have a life like this

How come there are no more comments to this amazing video?

@PsyberMind Proximity Based Authentication doesn't just mean standing near it means you are authenticated... you still have a secure ID (and password in some cases) encoded onto whatever object it is that you put near the device you want to authenticate against

This visions are amazing. I am 24 now, from Germany and I am ready to study at a University in the next month. I am dreaming about working for Corning when I am gratuated in three or four years. I will apply for a job in your company because I would love working for a great Manufacturer with great ideas and visions, similar to mine. I hope my dream will become true in a few years. See you at Corning ^^ hopefully.