The company behind the glass on most top-shelf smartphones imagines a future where "highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world".

Corning's Gorilla Glass has become the standard for scratch-resistant screens in portable electronic devices over the past few years, but the company is apparently looking past smartphones and into larger surfaces that surround us every day. In A Day Made of Glass 2, Corning imagines wardrobe mirrors as computer monitors, car windows that can be darkened by users and the humble school blackboard replaced by a transparent wall-sized interactive display.

There is also a scene in the video showing two doctors teleconferencing on life-sized displays in real time — a use for this technology that may seem like it was written in a science-fiction novel. However, long-distance medical consultations are, in fact, one of the major uses for Australia's high-speed NBN, as proposed by supporters of the project. If Australia's government can provide the bandwidth, it seems as though Corning is ready to deliver the glass to make this a reality.

We do think that the world could probably do without enormous touchscreens in national parks, but, these aside, we encourage you to spent six minutes taking a look at a future in glass. Maybe consider buying shares in Windex, too, while you're at it.

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