Section 5.Who Gets to Determine the Shape of Everyware?

Beyond the purely technical, there are powerful social, cultural, and economic forces that will act as boundary constraints on the kind of everyware that comes into being. What are these forces? What sorts of influences will they bring to bear on the ubiquitous technology we encounter in daily life? And especially, who has the power to decide these issues?

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