Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing Review

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Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing ReviewThis book is about understanding people & culture first, technology second. If you're looking for a book that tells you what the next wave of computing is, buy a different book - the authors even suggest a few at the end to read as you're reading the final chapter (Everyware, Shaping Things, etc.).
If you want to understand all of the cultural and human considerations that should be part of a research project when considering new technology, then this book is for you. Think of it as an ethnographers guide for technology research... which isn't as good a title, but I think sums up the book pretty well.
Overall, the book was really good.
The frustrating part for me was the never-ending references to research papers, it's almost like they should have included them in the back or something or given links to them at the front of each chapter so you could go read those first.
Once you get past that, the authors do a really good job of outlining all those messy considerations that are often overlooked in "visions of the future", things like Privacy, Security, etc.
One thing that stood out to me, probably because it was at the end of the book, was the part about "the home of the future" as being an idyllic place. The reality is something different, I think it was something like 4 Million women a year are victims of domestic violence, how will the home of future, with all this technology, be better for them (I'm paraphrasing here, probably not very well).
If you are investigating the future of technology I highly recommend this book. If you want to know what the future is, this probably isn't the book for you.Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing Overview

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