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Everyware is an immediate issue because it will appear to be a commercially reasonable thing to attempt in the near term.

If Octopus isn't a sufficiently robust instance of real-world everyware for you, perhaps you'll be more impressed by what's happening along the Incheon waterfront, some 40 miles southwest of Seoul. Rising from the sea here are 1,500 acres of newly reclaimed land destined to become South Korea's "ubiquitous city," New Songdo.

New Songdo is being designed, literally from the ground up, as a test bed for the fullest possible evocation of ubiquitous technology in everyday life. Like a living catalogue of all the schemes ...

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