Every[ware], le livre d'Adam Greenfield

The new book of Adam Greenfield, Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing, is available for purchase from Amazon.

As the subtitle suggests, it’s about an important change I see unfolding in the world: the emergence of a computing without computers, where information processing is almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us.

Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing…even smart bathtubs. Networked street signs and self-describing soda cans. Gestural interfaces like those seen in Minority Report. The RFID tags now embedded in everything from credit cards to the family pet. All of these are facets of the class of technologies I think of as “everyware.”

In the book’s 81 brief theses, I explore various facets of the way everyware is already reshaping our lives, transforming our understanding of the cities we live in, the communities we belong to – and the way we see ourselves. What does this mean to those of us who will be encountering it? How will it transform our lives? And how will we learn to make wise decisions about something so hard to see?

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