Thesis 21
Everyware recombines practices and technologies in ways that are greater than the sum of their parts.
The hundred-billion-dollar question: do the products and services we've been discussing truly constitute a system, a continuous fabric of computational awareness and response?
Some—including, it must be said, some of the most knowledgeable, prominent, and respected voices in academic ubicomp—would say that they clearly do not. Their viewpoint is that originators such as Mark Weiser never intended "ubiquitous" to mean anything but locally ubiquitous: present everywhere "in the woodwork" of a given, bounded place, not literally circumambient ...
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