Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

Thesis 59

The necessary processor speed already exists.

Of the major limiting factors on ubiquitous computing, one of the most vexing—and certainly the most fundamental—has always been processor speed. The challenges posed by the deployment of computing out in the everyday environment, whether parsing the meaning of a gesture in real time or tracking 500 individual trajectories through an intersection, have always been particularly processor-intensive.

But if processor speed has historically constituted a brake on development, it needn't any longer. The extravagance of computational resources such applications require is now both technically ...