I recommend eBiquity for news on pervasive computing, a field that began with Mark Weiser’s foundational research at Xerox PARC. It tracks the evolution of ubiquitous technology and its integration into our daily physical environments.
I discovered this Xerox PARC paper on the future of books while reading The Social Life of Information. It offers a thoughtful look at how digital media and traditional print coexist and influence our information habits.
I highlight a Xerox PARC article examining the social role of documents in the New Economy. It argues that documents are active agents in building communities and facilitating communication, rather than just static information containers.
I examine the rise of commercial distributed computing markets where companies buy idle retail processor time. This model dis-aggregates computing power, enabling resource-intensive initiatives like the Internet Movie Project to be crowdsourced using spare capacity.
I observed IBM’s move into on-demand computing under Sam Palmisano, validating my prediction that tech giants would soon aggregate retail computing power for massive distributed projects, similar to early efforts by Google and Intel.
I share a link to the MIT Erotic Computing Group, a Media Lab initiative that explored the intersection of technology and human sexuality through experimental interface design and affective computing research.