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digital networks are no longer seperate from architecture. unlike cyberspace, which was conceived as a tabula rasa, pervasive computing has to be inscribed into the social and environmental complexity of the existing physical enviroment. Situated technology may help us manage the protocols, flows, ecologies, and systems that form the basis of valued places; or it may add a layer of distrust, information glut, and experiential uniformity to them.(...) Whereas previous paradigms of cyberspace threatened to dematerialize architecture, pervasive computing invites a defense of architecture.

Malcom McCullough, 2004, Digital ground:architecture, pervasive computing, and environmental knowing, MIT, xiii