"Adam is a visionary. Unlike most technology experts, he has true compassion and respect for the ordinary user - poor schmucks like me who are struggling to use and understand all the new technology being thrust upon us at overwhelming speed, and to make sense of the ways in which it is transforming our lives."
"Adam Greenfield, who coined the term 'moblogging' and organized the first International Moblogging Conference before most people even knew it was possible, is intense, engaged, intelligent, and caring. I pay attention to him. I counsel you to do the same."
The age of ubiquitous computing is here: a computing without computers, where information processing has diffused into everyday life, and virtually disappeared from view. 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?
Join noted writer and critical futurist Adam Greenfield as he explores this new technology and its implications for society, for business, for the way we design spaces and cities - even for the way we relate to each other.
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