eightbar Reads Everyware
There’s a nice post up on eightbar about Adam Greenfield’s new book, Everyware, which I’m hoping to crack soon, and some of the things they’re working on over at IBM’s Hursley Park Lab in the UK, from which eightbar (as well as a virtual Wimbledon) emerges.
Adam’s vision of Everyware is one of almost effortless and unknowing interactions with our surroundings, surroundings that are actually networked devices receiving and broadcasting information, which is collated, distributed and presented to users (I prefer participants) in intuitive, helpful and appropriate ways. . . . The theme struck a chord with me simply for the fact that we use a lot of these technologies here in the Emerging Tech group in Hursley (well we are emerging tech after all) . Motes, Zigbee enabled devices, RFID and other funky Gizmos can usually be found spilling out from under Dave Conway-Jones office door.
Very 3pointD. I’m tentatively planning a trip to the UK in November. Perhaps a jaunt to Hursley is in order. A read of Everyware definitely is.
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Everyware is a series of short essays, which might be fun to read in short snippets while traveling. After spending a fair amount of time with ubicomp researchers, Everyware acted for me as a nice survey from an outsider’s perspective. That said, many of Greenfield’s projections into the future are made without knowing certain ugly details of the research which can severely limit adoption or redirect progress.