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.
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- The credit and copyright notice for the icon illustrations which appear throughout the book is missing. The appropriate credit should read "Icons designed by Adam Greenfield and Nurri Kim, inspired by the work of Timo Arnall." The images are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, version 2.5.
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- p. 117: the sentence "There will be so very, very many of them, thousands of them devoted to every person and place, and it won't really matter whether some percentage of them fail" should be replaced with "There will be so very, very many of them - thousands of them devoted to every person and place - that it won't really matter if some percentage of them fail."
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- p. 209: the word "Really" following the ellipsis is improperly capitalized. Additionally, the errant period should be deleted.
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- p. 216: the clause "card and otherwise" should be replaced with "card- and otherwise," and the commas demarcating it replaced with parentheses.
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- p. 255: the word "Either" following the colon is, again, improperly capitalized!
- p. 260: a comma is missing, between "potentials and" and "where they."
- p. 267: the name rendered "Hüfgel" should be "Hügel."