(2005-07-20) Ubicomp Manifesto

A UbiComp manifesto. People equipped with a modest, affordable set of technologies travel throughout their day inside a kind of invisible "information field" (Thomas Vander Wal has called this the personal infocloud). This field or cloud is created by a constant, seamless, automated collaboration between: the digital devices (Mobile) people carry, such laptops, media players, and camera phones; the wireless (WiFi) and wireline networks that serve their various locations as they move about; the global Internet and its growing store of socially-generated knowledge and Web-based, on-demand social applications (Social Software).