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Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

Dourish, Paul
Bell, Genevieve

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 0262525895
ISBN13: 9780262525893
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jan 10 2014
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.69 Depth: 8.84
Language: English
A sociotechnical investigation of ubiquitous computing as a research enterprise and as a lived reality.

Ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) is the label for a third wave of computing technologies. Following the eras of the mainframe computer and the desktop PC, ubicomp is characterized by small and powerful computing devices that are worn, carried, or embedded in the world around us. The ubicomp research agenda originated at Xerox PARC in the late 1980s; these days, some form of that vision is a reality for the millions of users of Internet-enabled phones, GPS devices, wireless networks, and smart domestic appliances. In Divining a Digital Future, computer scientist Paul Dourish and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell explore the vision that has driven the ubiquitous computing research program and the contemporary practices that have emerged--both the motivating mythology and the everyday messiness of lived experience.

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