Person-World Distinction in Ubicomp

Posted: February 19th, 2006 | No Comments »

A drawing by Mark Weiser, dropped without explanation on a bottom left of his ubiquitous computing web page.
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One of Weiser’s research interests was… garbage collection. Yet another field I share with him.

Relation to my thesis: I guess the intention is to show that the world is no more a desktop, and that ubiquitous technologies free us from physical anchors.