Thesis 38
Everyware is problematic because it is hard to see literally.
Like bio- and nanotechnology, everyware is a contemporary technics whose physical traces can be difficult or even impossible to see with the unaided eye.
It's a minuscule technology. Its material constituents are for the most part sensors, processors, and memory chips of centimeter scale or smaller, connected (where they require physical connections at all) via printed, woven, or otherwise conformal circuitry.
It's a dissembling technology: those constituents are embedded in objects whose outer form may offer no clue as to their functionality.
It's also, of course, a wireless ...
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