Section 01

Everyware - section 1 "What is everyware?"

"Ever more pervasive, ever harder to perceive, computing has leapt off the desktop and insinuated itself into everyday life..."

Indeed it has. The same question continues to ask itself in my head. I've seemingly hadrwired it there. How does this pervasiveness and imperceptibility of computing changed the form of our lives. That is to ask, how do we do things different now because of technology. How has this changed our workflow, our conversation, and our values. When we begin to communicate differently, we begin to communicate about different things. The form changes the content. This could be bad. This could be good.

Thesis 01

"Weiser developed the idea of an 'invisible' computing, a computing that 'does not live on a personal device of any sort, but is in the woodwork everywhere." To me, descriptions such as these bare an inevitable resemblance to Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains." "...The woodwork everywhere." - like those little robot mice, sweeping up and exiting to the baseboards.

more to come...

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