Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this “Third Paradigm” computing.
I love the term ‘calm computing’. Who came up with that?
But we will wind up using ‘mobile’ as the term of art for this, I bet, even though sometimes that alludes to us, the users, being mobile and interacting with ‘calm’ objects, like sensor-enabled billboards. It’s not all iPhones and iPads, folks.
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tend to think of it...continued ATM-ification. I’m just old enough that I remember my...
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