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Something with the properties we see in everyware was foreordained the moment tools and services began to be expressed digitally.

Long before there was an everyware, we simply had tools. Some of them were mechanical in nature, like timepieces and cameras. Others were electric, or electronic, in whole or in part: radios, telephones, televisions. Others still were larger, less mobile, designed to perform a single function: appliances. And together, they comprised a technics of everyday life.

It was, of course, an analog universe. Where these tools gathered information about the world, it was encoded as the state of a continuously variable ...

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