Looking into their crystal balls, many see a future of unlimited bandwidth in which mobile devices supplant the PC.  One of these prophets is Adam Greenfield. He sees a world of  "live feeds from massively distributed embedded sensor networks, extraordinarily complex real-time data visualizations, fully social augmented-reality overlays...and a whole lot of things that we haven't even begun to imagine.”  In his book, 'Everyware : The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing', he conceives of a a world where there are smart buildings, smart furniture, gestural interfaces.

 Divided into 81 theses, Greenfield paints a picture where computers are embedded into the enviroment, such that, as the title of the book implies, computers are everywhere and in everything, as it where. All very enlightening no doubt, but is this 'brave new world' a good thing? One wonders what Sir Thomas Moore,  who coined the term 'Utopia' would have made of it?
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