Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

Thesis 25

Everyware has already staked a claim on our visual imaginary, which in turn exerts a surprising influence on the development of technology.

Before we turn to more material drivers, we might first want to attend to a surprisingly influential force that does so much to bolster everyware's aura of inevitability, and that is how often we've already seen it.

More so than in many other fields of contemporary technologic endeavor, in everyware pop culture and actual development have found themselves locked in a co-evolutionary spiral. Time and again, the stories we've told in the movies and the pages of novels have gone on to shape the course ...