Joe Lamantia.com

First Fic­tions and the Para­ble of the Palace is the inau­gural install­ment of “Every­ware: Design­ing the Ubiq­ui­tous Expe­ri­ence,” a col­umn explor­ing user expe­ri­ence and design in the era of ubiq­ui­tous com­put­ing. ‘First Fic­tions’ con­sid­ers the pro­found design impli­ca­tions of foun­da­tional visions of ubiq­ui­tous com­put­ing imag­ined by tech­nol­o­gists such as Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, and finds prece­dent for these sorts of techno-social futures in the poetic para­bles of Jorge Louis Borges.

“Every­ware” will be a jour­ney through the expand­ing wave­front of the ubiq­ui­tous expe­ri­ence as it impacts design, cov­er­ing top­ics rang­ing from ubiq­ui­tous com­put­ing to near-field com­mu­ni­ca­tion, per­va­sive com­put­ing, The Inter­net of Things, spimes, ubi­comp, loca­tive media, and ambi­ent infor­mat­ics.
I hope it’s as good to read as it has been to write. And keep the com­ments flowing!