Reading, Week One

While reading the Extract taken from "Everyware", these are the definitions of pervasive computing that I picked up.

• "Computing has leapt off the deskytop and insinuated itself into everyday life."
• "It will affect almost everyone of us, whether we're aware of it or not."
• "A computing that does not live on a personal devise of any sort, but is in the woodwork everwhere."
• "Computing without computers."
• "Desktop machines per se would largely disappear."
• "Computation would flourish, becoming intimately interwined with the stuff of everyday life."
• "People would interact with these systems fluently and naturally, barely noticing."
• "To extend network access to just about anyplace people could think of to go."
• "Wireless-enabled, embedded sensors and microcontrollers."
• "Bridges between  the physical and virtual worlds."
• "Gesture recognisation and voice recognisation."
• "Invisible-but-everywhere."
• "Recogfiguration of everyday life around [ubiquitous computing]."
• "Information processing would be everywhere in the human environment."
• "Post-PC computing."
• "The network is effectivly invisible."
• "Everyware."
• "Without being aware."
• "Hiding in plain sight."
• "Incorporating digital intelligence into objects with an everyday form factor."
• "The invisible computer."
• "Our daily experience of the world altered."
• "Computing everywhere."

Technologies in todays society are fast approaching the ideas talked about in the article.  The IPhone alone, covers almost every example of what pervasive computing is actually about.