In an ideal world, computers will blend into the landscape, will inform but not overburden you with information, and make you aware of them only when you need them.
By Alexandru Tugui
"In the twenty-first century the technology revolution will move into the everyday, the small and the invisible. The impact of technology will increase ten-fold as it is imbedded in the fabric of everyday life. As technology becomes more imbedded and invisible, it calms our lives by removing annoyances while keeping us connected with what is truly important. This imbedding, this invisibility, this radical ease-of-use requires radical innovations in our connectivity infrastructure". — M. D. Weiser
Multimedia, interoperability, and intelligence science hold the attention of the information world today. The jump to tomorrow's technologies will require the incorporation of the computer as a common item of such technologies. Thus the computer will remain omnipresent in the background as a facilitator. It has been said that a characteristic quality of tomorrow's technologies is that they will be calm. The term, first used by Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown in the early 1990s, has been interpreted and built upon ever since. This paper briefly presents some dimensions of the concept of calm technology against the multimedia background of tomorrow's world.
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