A new crop of computing tools is beginning to change the way we think, learn, and interact with the physical world and with other people. This change is accelerating, and it will spread through our culture so fast -- and upset traditional notions of communication so radically -- that even the last half-century of rapid technological progress has not prepared us for it. These new tools are both digital, rooted in the world of electrons and bits, and social, meaning they enable new kinds of interactions between people. Almost below our mental radar, they have ushered us into a world of what I am calling continuous computing. |
