Watch this video by Corning about various types of glass (they’d obviously need the computer/programming in addition to the material)
I especially wonder about things like table surfaces or wall surfaces where you touch your cell phone (made of glass, natch) to it and your app/data opens on the surface instead of just your small screen…
We will.
Arguably, we could already build most of this stuff. The interface to an iPhone is essentially a piece of glass that displays video and responds to touch. Microsoft demo’d the “touch your device to the surface to transfer” a few years ago. Flexible screens are coming shortly. The only thing shown there that hasn’t already been demo’d (that I know of) are screens that do all these things, but are transparent when they aren’t on.
The other thing that remains is getting the cost low enough that you can just put video into every surface for the hell of it, and the necessary engineering to make everything cooperate like that. I’m not saying that those are easy, but I’d be incredibly surprised if they’re insurmountable given 10-20 years.