The age of ubiquitous computing is here: a computing without computers, where information processing has diffused into everyday life, and virtually disappeared from view. What does this mean to those of us who will be encountering it? How will it transform our lives? And how will we learn to make wise decisions about something so hard to see?
Join noted writer and critical futurist Adam Greenfield as he explores this new technology and its implications for society, for business, for the way we design spaces and cities - even for the way we relate to each other.
Some sites you may enjoy:
- area/code.
- Julian Bleecker's Techkwondo.
- Anne Galloway's Purse Lip Square Jaw.
- Mizuko Ito.
- Matt Jones.
- Mike Kuniavsky's Orange Cone.
- Ulla-Maaria Mutanen's Hobby Princess.
- Matt Webb's Interconnected.
The bibliography that follows, while complete, has not yet been fully annotated. A comprehensive list of errata in the first edition can be found here.
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