Questions• Project #4•HW #7• Class surveyVisions of the future (I)Star Fire (Sun’s vision in ‘92)Knowledge Navigator (Apple’s vision in ‘87)Minority Report“2001: A Space Odyssey”(S. Kubrick, 1971)Vision of the future (II)Connected products (IDEO vision in ‘00)The computer for the 21stCentury(Mark Weiser)• Unnoticeable– Like writing, street signs…• Disappear into the background– Like electric motors– Not attention demanding• 3 scales– Taps (100s, inches scale)– Pads (10s, feet scale)• Scrap computers– Boards (few, yards scale)The invisible computer (Norman)The computer for the 21stCentury(Mark Weiser)• Key breakthroughs– Network technology• High connectivity• High mobility• Good bandwidth–Storage• No need for delete– Context aware• Not AI• Privacy?– Collaboration aware• Easy to collaborate with them• Substrate for interactions– Moving information around between
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