THE COMING AGE OF CALM TECHNOLOGY [Reading]
The important waves of technological change are those that fundamentally
alter the place of technology in our lives. What matters is not
technology itself, but its relationship to us.
In the past fifty years of computation there have been two great
trends in this relationship: the mainframe relationship, and the
PC relationship. Today the Internet is carrying us through an
era of widespread distributed computing towards the relationship
of ubiquitous computing, characterized by deeply imbedding
computation in the world. Ubiquitous computing will require a
new approach to fitting technology to our lives, an approach we
call "calm technology".
This article briefly describes the relationship trends, and then
expands on the challenges of designing for calm using both the
center and the periphery of our perception and the world.
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