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The Coming Age of Calm Technology

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The important waves of technological change are those that fundamentally alter the place of technology in our lives. What matters is not technology itself, but its relationship to us.

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Weiser, M., Brown, J.S. (1997). The Coming Age of Calm Technology. In: Beyond Calculation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0685-9_6

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