In the nineteenth century, Weiser was proposing the idea that someday, computers will be weaved into the fabric of everyday life. Today, not far from his predictions, ubiquitous computing is rapidly becoming a reality. Computers are around us and part of our life, pretty much from the time we get up to the time we go to bed and sometimes even when we are sleep. Computers are taking into account the natural human environment and the components of our environment from the devices that we use to the clothing that we wear are becoming smart. Weiser suggested that technology in the future will disappear in the background. However, transparency of technology doesn’t mean that it is invisible to the eye; rather it is placed in a way that becomes so embedded in the natural environment that it actually becomes indistinguishable from everyday life. This development of information technology, increases the exposure of people’s life and their activities, therefore it may raise serious issues about the preservation of privacy. The world ahead, with the blurred boundary between information technology and natural environment, will provide architecture as the designed environment with both new functions and challenges. Architecture will not be passive anymore. Smart environment affects the occupant’s choices as they go about their everyday life just like writing that as Weiser claimed freed the information from the individual memory.
11.06.2014