Thesis 76
Everyware must be conservative of time.
One of the reasons that the Fukasawan vision of information processing dissolving in behavior is so alluring is because it promises to restore a little simplicity to our world. As a recent ethnographic study by Scott Main-waring, Ken Anderson, and Michele Chang of Intel Research underscores, daily life in the developed world now exposes us to a multitude of physical and informational infrastructures, each of which requires some kind of token to mediate. Simply to get through the day, we carry keys, cash, credit cards, debit cards, transit passes, parking receipts, library cards, loyalty-program ...
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