Marc Weiser - Ubiquitous Computing predicting the future

von Paolo Facetti

"Coined by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center's (PARC) Computer Science Laboratory (CSL), describes a vision of the future. Just as electric motors have disappeared into the background of everyday life, PARC scientists envision a future where mobile computational devices will be similarly transparent. "
"My colleagues and I at PARC believe that what we call ubiquitous computing will gradually emerge as the dominant mode of computer access over the next twenty years. Like the personal computer, ubiquitous computing will enable nothing fundamentally new, but by making everything faster and easier to do, with less strain and mental gymnastics, it will transform what is apparently possible. Desktop publishing, for example, is fundamentally not different from computer typesetting, which dates back to the mid 1960's at least. But ease of use makes an enormous difference."

Mark Weiser

Read more: https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/Stanford/CS477/papers/Weiser-SciAm.pdf

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