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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"[With Everyware,] Adam Greenfield has graduated from 'information architect' to 'messiah.'"
Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art
"Greenfield has written a book I'd recommend everyone to read ASAP."
READ THE WHOLE REVIEWDan Lockton, Architectures of Control in Design
"Overall, a most impressive book which clearly leads the reader through the implications of ubiquitous computing, and the issues surrounding its development and deployment in a very logical style...Greenfield’s book is an excellent primer on the subject which ought to be on every designer’s bookshelf."
READ THE WHOLE REVIEWMarrije Schaake, Duck for Cover booklog
"This is going to be a rave review...I think that basically anyone who is smart should read this book, whether you're in the IT/web/mobile business or not. [R]equired reading. Everyware is brilliant, lucid, compassionate, practical, and hugely motivating...hurray for Adam Greenfield, who has written such a beautiful book for all of us."
READ THE WHOLE REVIEWMichele Tepper, ACM
"Copies should be handed out to everyone who has ever made a prediction about the always-on future, to make them consider the implications of their ideas."
READ THE WHOLE REVIEWBruce Sterling
"Groundbreaking...Anybody with any interest in ubicomp issues should read this book. It's written with remarkable elegance. One puts it down with a strange conviction that web-designers have transcended geekdom and achieved Zen soulfulness."
READ THE WHOLE REVIEWCory Doctorow, Boing Boing
"Fascinating and thought-provoking."
READ THE WHOLE REVIEWDan Saffer, Senior Interaction Designer, Adaptive Path
"It will be hard for any interaction designer to read Adam Greenfield's Everyware without feeling like the work we're doing now is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. A combination call-to-arms, overview, and prophecy, Everyware is a frightening, but engaging, read...highly recommended."
READ THE WHOLE REVIEWJeffrey Zeldman, Principal, Happy Cog Studios
"Adam Greenfield has written one of the most provocative books in years. If the right people read it, Everyware may do for the coming, computerless computing interface what Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things did for design generally."
READ THE WHOLE REVIEWChristopher Fahey, Principal, Behavior Design
"I’ll just say up front that I think Adam Greenfield is a genius...He’s managed to write a technology book woven out of a dozen diverse themes, including futurism, science fiction, culture, art, humanism, and even ethics. The book goes beyond simple technophilia vs. technophobia, and should be a required read for any person interested in even one of the above themes. [W]ill be cited and quoted by future thinkers for many years to come as we continue to deal with the ramifications of ubicomp."
Steve Silberman, editor, Wired
"A gracefully written, fascinating, and deeply wise book on one of the most powerful ideas of the digital age - and the obstacles we must overcome before we can make ubiquitous computing a reality."
Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability
"Brilliant, iconoclastic, original, essential, Everyware is an invaluable roadmap to the future. Find this book. It will change your life."
Liz Danzico, Director of Experience Strategy, AIGA
"Anyone interested in understanding the infusion, diffusion, and elusion of information will be at once delighted and informed by Everyware. As everyware becomes everyday, Greenfield takes us on a smart and stunning tour of the new normal."