These smart environments and intelligent rooms will put at our disposal a vastly expanded inventory of information, without requiring us to learn special command languages to access data. The designers of such 'invisible computers' describe them as ways for people to interact with computation 'as they interact with another person'. In this talk, however, I will agree with Harry Potter that one should 'never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain'. I'll argue that humans need to locate intelligence, and that this need poses problems for the invisible computer.
Bodies are the best possible example of located intelligence, of course.
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