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A really interesting and enlightening podcast with Mike Kuniavsky, co-founder and Principal of ThingM:
“I do not advocate that we pretend that technology is a kind of magic, but that we use our existing cultural understanding of magic objects as an abstraction to describe the behavior of ubiquitous computing devices.”
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