Could you explain why? It looks absolutely dystopian.

To an extent, you are right. It looks like a cyberpunk game screen, which, upon inspection, is part of the draw here. I would like to assume that all of this can be changed, customized and whatnot the way I customize just about everything else.

You might see ads everywhere, but see my little meme gallery project plastered instead of every single of those ads, I see real time translation as a tourist, I see an advisor whispering in my ear the proper way to say thank you to this merchant.

You assume those will degrade the same way cellphones did. I am saying: lets make sure it doesn't happen by doing some work now since we absolutely do know what to expect from corporates.

A person from 1800 seeing a video of today's New York city would call it dystopian and the work of the Devil.

You're making their point /s

I hope that the commenter above you is a bot...

It's like looking at the AOL homepage and the mess of GeoCities and still seeing the potential in the internet.

It's clear that whoever made it had fun thinking through the UX that such a platform could have, and not all of it bad.

Same. I watched the video years ago and it's always stuck with me as something I would want. Not the ads of course, but an enhanced "UI" for the real world. The video is exceptionally well done.