#pervasivecomputing

"Most particularly, the growth of ubiquitous and wearable computing has the potential to produce cities which constantly compute. Such developments – which are more important than the overhyped internet – provide, through the combination of computing and wireless, for a whole new era of ‘informational devices’ which will allow computing to become a pervasive part of the urban environment, with even the most mundane device having some computing power and some ability to communicate with other devices, so producing a constant informational hum. In turn, this computing power will become better and better at responding to or mimicking human bodies, through a greater and greater capacity to recognise voices and faces, and even work with and simulate affect."