Ubiquitous

• Mark Weiser

• Like magic, the principle of making technology unconscious to people (unconsciousness)

• Integrating computers into human environments and eliminating consciousness towards computers

• Making it less noticeable, like the air

  • Examples could be AirPods Pro and other earphones

• This is already happening

  • Whether posting on Facebook with a smartphone or a computer is not consciously considered
    • Consciousness towards the device is fading
  • Not caring whether news is learned from television or newspapers
    • Consciousness towards the information transmission channel is fading

• The world that Calm Technology and Ubiquitous Technology aim for

  • Computers absorbing complex and cumbersome tasks of all actions
  • And those computers are not consciously perceived
    • What humans perceive is the essence of those actions
    • Isn’t this the essence of affordance? (#DesignForWhom)
  • Examples of actions: drawing pictures, communicating, moving objects, etc.
    • The CEO of cluster writes about something similar https://note.com/c_c_kato/n/nfa1a000cc826

• It’s not about going back and forth between the real world and the digital world, but about the two being interconnected

  • It’s not about creating a bookstore on the internet

#century of Magic