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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, or something very much like it, is effectively inevitable.

We've considered some of the ways the emergence of everyware seems to be overdetermined. There are forces aplenty driving its appearance, from the needs of the elderly infirm in the world's richest societies to those of nonliterate users in the developing world.

There is an argument to be made that the apparent significance of these drivers is illusory—that Weiser and the other prophets of ubiquitous technology were simply wrong about what people would want from computing, and particularly that they underestimated the persistent appeal of the general-purpose desktop ...

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