Coming Age of Magic (Etech Edition)
This morning I gave a keynote at O'Reilly's Etech. It was an elaboration on the theme of magic in the design of ubiquitous computing user experience that I've been developing for a while now.
The core of the piece were three linked arguments about emergence:
- The emergence of ubiquitous computing from market forces acting on, and in concert with, CPU prices
- The emergence of animist reactions to devices that have behaviors that go beyond action-reaction physics
- The emergence of magic as a metaphor for the design of ubicomp devices
I've made the presentation (710K PDF) with all of my speaking notes available.
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