Reading Week 1- 'Everyware' extract

• 'Computing has leapt off the desktop and insinuated itself into everyday life.'
• 'Will appear in many different contexts and take a wide variety of forms, but it will affect almost every one of us, whether we are aware of it or not.'
• 'An "invisible" computing, a computing that "does not live on a personal device of any sort, but is in the woodwork everywhere."'
• 'But computation would flourish, becoming intimately interwined with the stuff of everyday life.'
• 'Ordinary objects, from coffee mugs to raincoats to the paint on the walls.
• ' People would interact with these systems fluently and naturally, barely noticing the powerful informatics they were engaging. the innumerable hassles presented by personal computing would fade into history.'
• Mobile phones (Philips, Samsung and Nokia).
• 'Wireless-enabled, embedded sensors and microcontrollers known as 'motes'.'