Skip to main content

The Coming Age of Calm Technology

  • Chapter
Beyond Calculation

Abstract

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.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
$34.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

eBook
USD 19.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 24.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Bolt, S. http://www2.wvitcoe.wvnet.edu/~sbolt/ip-density.html.

  2. Brown, J.S. and Duguid, P. “Keeping It Simple: Investigating Resources in the Periphery, ” in Solving the Software Puzzle, ed. T. Winograd, Stanford University.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Deering, S. and Hinden, R. “IPv6 Specification.” http://ds.internic.net/rfc/ rfcl883.txt (December 1995).

  4. Gabriel, K. “Engineering Microscopic Machines,” Scientific American 273, no. 3 (Sept. 1995): 118–121.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Gaver, W.W. “Auditory Icons: Using Sound in Computer Interfaces.” J. Human-Computer Interaction 2, no. 2 (1986): 167–177.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Gibson, J. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. New York: Houghton Mif-flin, 1979.

    Google Scholar 

  7. IDC. “Transition to the Information Highway Era,” in 1995–96 Information Industry and Technology Update, p. 2.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Kumar, V. MBone: Interactive Multimedia on the Internet. New York: Macmillan, 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  9. MIT Media Lab. “Things That Think.” http://ttt.www.media.mit.edu/.

  10. Norman, D.A. The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Robertson, G.G., MacKinlay, J.D., and Card, S.K. “Cone Trees: Animated 3D Visualizations of Hierarchical Information,” HCI 91 (1991): 189–194.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Watson, T. “Mobile and Wireless Computing.” http://snapple.cs.washington.edu:600/mobile/mobilewww.html.

  13. Weiser, M. “Some Computer Science Problems in Ubiquitous Computing.” Communications of the ACM, July 1993.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1997 Springer Science+Business Media New York

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

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

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0685-9_6

  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Print ISBN: 978-0-387-98588-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4612-0685-9

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics