Calm Technology

“Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people.”

-Mark Weiser

A selection of papers about Calm Technology and ubiquitous computing on Calm Technology.

The Computer for the 21st Century

“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”

“The Computer for the 21st Century” – Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991

The Computer for the 21st Century – weiser-orig.pdf.