Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

Thesis 04

Everyware gives rise to a regime of ambient informatics.

With its provisions for sensing capacity built into such a wide variety of everyday objects, we've seen that everyware multiplies by many, many times the number of places in the world in which information can be gathered. The global network will no longer be fed simply by keyboards, microphones, and cameras, in other words, but also by all of the inputs implied by the pervasive deployment of computational awareness.

Even if all of those new inputs were fed into conventional outputs—Web sites, say, or infographics on the evening news—that would certainly be a significant evolution ...