- Everyware # 8 Apr 2006
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The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. Zeldman comments. I wonder if the pun in the name will eventually be removed, as was done for Don Norman’s book.
“If we make wise choices about the terms on which we accept it, we can extend the utility and convenience of ubiquitous computing to billions of lives. We stand a real chance of improving the experience of the everyday, addressing dissatisfactions as old as human history. Alternately, we can watch passively as the world fills up with ubiquitous systems not designed with our interests at heart – at best presenting us with moments of hassle, disruption and frustration beyond number, and at worst laying the groundwork for the kind of repression the despots of the twentieth century could only dream about.”
—Adam Greenfield.