Thesis 06
There are many rationales for the move away from the PC, any one of which would have been sufficient on its own.
At this point, you may well be wondering about the "why" of all this. Why embed computing in everyday objects? Why reinvent thoroughly assimilated habits and behaviors around digital mediation? Above all, why give up the settled and familiar context of the PC for a wild and unruly user environment, rivaling in complexity the knottiest and most difficult problems human beings have ever set up for themselves?
As you might suspect, there's no one answer. Part of the reason that the emergence of everyware seems so inevitable ...
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