Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

Thesis 62

The necessary display technologies already exist.

Although many—perhaps even the majority of—deployments of everyware will by their nature not require display screens of the conventional sort, there will still be a general requirement for the graphic presentation of information.

With displays of various sorts appearing in an ever greater number of places throughout the environment, though, we can assume that the ethic of calmness we've discussed in other contexts will also inform their design. And this turns out to have a lot to do with screen luminance and resolution, threshold values of which must be reached before the display itself ...