VirtualChaos - Nadeem's blog » computing_devices http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf mutes ... or should I? Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:27:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 The Coming Age of Magic http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2007/12/21/the-coming-age-of-magic/ http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2007/12/21/the-coming-age-of-magic/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:43:17 +0000 nadeem.shabir http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2007/12/21/the-coming-age-of-magic/ 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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