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Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
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Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

by Adam Greenfield
March 2006
Beginner
272 pages
5h 48m
English
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Everyware can be engaged inadvertently, unknowingly, or even unwillingly.

I hope it's obvious by now that one of the most significant ways in which everyware diverges from our experience of personal computing is that in all of the scenarios we've been exploring, it can be engaged even in the absence of an active, conscious decision to do so.

There are at least three modes in which this lack of agency becomes relevant. The first is the situation of inadvertency: I didn't mean to engage this system. I didn't mean to broadcast my current location to anybody who asks for it. I meant to do something else—perhaps set it such that only my ...

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