Ubiquity
Quite a few books on the go these days… one of them about to be added to the list is Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing…
“Everyware is an attempt to describe the form computing will take in the next few years. Specifically, it’s about a vision of processing power so distributed throughout the environment that computers per se effectively disappear. It’s about the enormous consequences this disappearance has for the kinds of tasks computers are applied to, for the way we use them, and for what we understand them to be.”
Review courtesy of A List Apart. I’ve harped on the ubiquity issue quite a bit both in my own philosophy about computing but also in how our customers should think about data problems even in the medium term. I’m also finishing up Counting Heads which is a sci-fi exploration of nanotechnology and ubiquity taken forward about a hundred years… very entertaining read. Based on Ryan’s recommendation (happy birthday btw) I also just picked up The Blind Watchmaker.