themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. —— Mark Weiser, Xerox Parc, 1991 The Computer for the Twenty-First Century
shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives.” 9
people share a computer Personal Computer one computer, one person Internet - Widespread Distributed Computing Ubiquitous Computing many computers share each of us
ubiquitous computing or as so-called pervasive computing which sought to deal with linking changes in the environment with computer systems, which are otherwise static. 11
a UUID specific to their app and deployment use case. Major 2 bytes Further specifies a specific iBeacon and use case. For example, this could define a sub-region within a larger region defined by the UUID. Minor 2 bytes Allows further subdivision of region or use case, specified by the application developer.
help you do something else. • The best computer is a quiet, invisible servant. • The more you can do by intuition the smarter you are; the computer should extend your unconscious. • Technology should create calm. —— Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, Xerox Parc, 1996 The Coming Age of Calm Technology 102