SXSW 2006: Everyware

"From the RFID tags now embedded in everything from soda cans to the family pet, to smart buildings that subtly adapt to the changing flow of visitors, to gestural interfaces like the ones seen in Minority Report, computing no longer looks much like it used to. Increasingly invisible but present everywhere in our lives, it has moved off the desktop and out into everyday life -- affecting almost every one of us, whether we're entirely aware of it or not. In his new book of the same name, SXSW veteran Adam Greenfield calls this ubiquitous computing 'everyware.' In a uniquely engaging approach to this complex topic, Greenfield explains how such 'information processing dissolving in behavior' is reshaping our lives. If you've ever sensed both the promise of the next computing, and the challenges it represents for all of us, you won't want to miss this talk. You'll come away with the tools to understand the next computing, and make the kind of wise decisions that will shape its emergence in ways that support the best that is in us."