Excellent post by Russell M Davies: On ubiquitous computing & the 'debasement of technology' wiked uk (Wired UK)

via wired.co.uk

Excerpt from an excellent post:

"....Matt Jones, of the mighty design studio BERG (which wired appears legally bound to mention in every issue), has conjured up an idea he calls "MujiComp" -- the notion that we won't get Ubiquitous Computing from mighty technology behemoths or centrally planned civic infrastructure, but rather it will come from tastefully designed middle-class bits and bobs. We'll buy a nice storage thing with some smarts and connectivity, and that will talk to our other nice storage things and tell us where our nice pencil-case or that chic key-chain have got to...."

Read the full post:

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/02/start/russell-m-davies

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