2006/05/31
Text-microchips
Just as text long since escaped medivial monasteries and can now be found not only in portable books, but also on stickers, shirts, street signs, and all over product packiaging, similary computers have long since escaped the glassed-in laboratory and the beige office cubicle.
we see them everywhere and sometimes they see us. far more microchips go into objects we hardly think of as computers than into boxes used through a keyboard, mouse, and screen. Today less than a quarter of the chips produced by Intel, the largest manufacturer, are put into desktop or laptop computer motherboards. The rest are embedded into physical locations. They drive personal gadgets, information appliances, smart tags, responsive rooms, enviromental monitors, and location-based services.
Malcom McCullough, 2004, Digital ground:architecture, pervasive computing, and environmental knowing, MIT, page 4-5
we see them everywhere and sometimes they see us. far more microchips go into objects we hardly think of as computers than into boxes used through a keyboard, mouse, and screen. Today less than a quarter of the chips produced by Intel, the largest manufacturer, are put into desktop or laptop computer motherboards. The rest are embedded into physical locations. They drive personal gadgets, information appliances, smart tags, responsive rooms, enviromental monitors, and location-based services.
Malcom McCullough, 2004, Digital ground:architecture, pervasive computing, and environmental knowing, MIT, page 4-5
