Wonderful elegy Read Brent Simmons' reasoning on why he doesn't want ubiquitous computing.
Brent truly is a gifted, poetic writer.
Okay, picture the toaster that is really good at sensing the done-ness of the toast, and pops when the toast is perfect, every time. What puzzles me, however, is how many normally sober news sources have mindlessly adopted Bush's use of the word crisis to describe something that, to my mind, isn't remotely a crisis. Both the BBC and the Financial Times, normally paragons of sobriety, use the term crisis. Fortunately, on BBC Radio 4 this morning, Bob May, president of the Royal Society, had the good sense to put matters right. May was speaking on the occasion of 17 national science academies backing the Kyoto protocal on climate change .