images Thesis 54

Many problems posed by everyware are highly resistant to comprehensive solution in the near term.

By now, the outlines of this thing we've been sketching are clear.

We've taken concepts originating in logistics, chip design, network theory, cultural anthropology, computer-supported collaborative work, and dozens of other disciplines, and fused them into a computing that has become genuinely ubiquitous in our lives, as present in our thoughts as it will be in our tools and jobs and cities.

Most of these "small pieces" are matters of the real world and the present day—a few, admittedly, only as incremental steps or standards adopted but ...

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