ubiquitous computing

   Computers everywhere.  Making many computers available
   throughout the physical environment, while making them
   effectively invisible to the user.  Ubiquitous computing is
   held by some to be the Third Wave of computing.  The First
   Wave was many people per computer, the Second Wave was one
   person per computer.  The Third Wave will be many computers
   per person.  Three key technical issues are: power
   consumption, user interface, and wireless connectivity.

   The idea of ubiquitous computing as invisible computation was
   first articulated by Mark Weiser in 1988 at the Computer
   Science Lab at Xerox PARC.

   (http://ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/weiser.html).

   (1994-12-23)