[finders] Everyware is Here

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April 3, 2006: Everyware is Here

http://www.findability.org/archives/000109.php

It's time to celebrate. March is over, Spring has sprung, and Everyware has
arrived. For everyone who shapes the user experience, or cares about the
future, this little blue book by Adam Greenfield is required reading.

Everyware shifts the conversation about ubiquitous computing from technology
to humanity, asking difficult questions about the nature of the future we
might wish to invent. Some of my favorite bits include:

    * Exploration of how everyware acts at the scale of the body, the room,
the building, and the street (theses 12-15).

    * Discussion of bridges between atoms and bits, illustrated by the
real-world hyperlinks of Semapedia (thesis 64).

    * Argument for "plausible deniability, including, above all, imprecision
of location" (thesis 75).

Anyone attending Bruce Sterling's Spime Watch knows the time to think
critically about the internet of objects and the socially dangerous
technology of ubicomp is now. So, for us all, it's a blessing that Everyware
is here.