What Every Happened to Ubiquitous Computing?
What Every Happened to Ubiquitous Computing?
- Computers are getting more ubiquitous
- Multiple computers in my office
- Have you been to an airport lately?
- Echelon style in-building controls: chip in a light socket
- But it is information, in the form of the web, that has become ubiquitous, not the computer!
- 47 million Americans on the Internet at end of 1996
- 12 million more than at start of 1996: 34% increase