The innovation centers will combine high-tech with high-touch to create futuristic customer engagement spaces.
Currently, while the High Altitude Flight is mostly instrumental to touristic purposes and emphasizes the so called Spaceports as futuristic, customers-luring airports featured with all the support services, the "Spacegate" concept deals with scheduled traveling in the upper part of the atmosphere between two points over the Earth surface, with significant reduction of the transfer time.
The Treatment Rooms, just opposite Brighton's Royal Pavilion, is an oasis of calm professionalism, with staff in black tunics proffering water and herbal tea, receptionists wearing futuristic headsets and customers padding around in robes and slippers.
This naturally makes talk of autonomous vehicles considerably more futuristic than for customers whose 2014 car parked itself and avoided a fender bender on this morning's commute.
"With Ola Play, we have already set the tone for connected vehicles in India; together with Microsoft, we can make the new platform available to a larger, global audience and unlock futuristic experiences for customers worldwide," Aggarwal, who once worked at Microsoft, added.
But Virgin is looking to be even more futuristic, promising the customer with the most miles at the end of the year a chance to upgrade to Galactic status.
In a more futuristic energy-saving scenario, customers' virtual networks could migrate from one data center to another around the world, temporarily settling wherever power and cooling cost least.
On the robot side of the business, Robin essentially leased and supported custom lawnmower bots so customers could have that futuristic privilege without dropping two grand up front.
Apple is counting on attracting non-Mac customers to its futuristic-looking machine to revive its once-dominant market share in desktops, which dwindled to just 2percentt in August, according to CI Infocorp.
A clerk at a Sears department store in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was filmed by one of these futuristic tools while slanging racism at an Asian customer.
One day, the owners of Rosemary's may discover that this futuristic gadget can be a handy method of notifying customers when a table is ready.
