CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter ANDR: Bell-Bottoms, Commodity Fetishism, Ambient Intelligence

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

From the perspective of these emergent forms of ambient intelligence, unwired humans will come across as singularly unintelligent, non-conversant and incomprehensible. Integrating computing into every aspect of daily life means finding ways of making it less intrusive, more portable and, more intimate. Weiser (1996) calls second-wave" computing: the ability of personal computers to bring the world into the privacy of people"s homes, thanks to the creation of broad-ranging computer networks. For dotcomguy, the computer screen served, among other things, as a technologically augmented version of the 19th-century window mirror. The development of smart clothes and smart objects is, according to the account outlined above, an economic one designed to facilitate the rationalization of both consumption and production. By contrast, the digital devices upon which we rely will become not just interactive, but hyperactive.