Section 1.

What is Everyware?

Ever more pervasive, ever harder to perceive, computing has leapt off the desktop and insinuated itself into everyday life. Such ubiquitous information technology—"everyware"—will appear in many different contexts and take a wide variety of forms, but it will affect almost every one of us, whether we're aware of it or not.

What is everyware? How can we recognize it when we encounter it? And how can we expect it to show up in our lives?