“At breakfast Sal reads the news. She still prefers the paper form, as do most people.”

This article is showing it’s age.

This video from The Media Lab highlights the contemporary issue of a one size fits all approach to personal computing. It’s connection is loose with the Weiser article, but I believe it brings up a very important issue, being that of identity. Weiser is seemingly theorizing to a future that has already solved the issue of raised by the video, a future where physical digital objects no longer define the human-computer interaction, instead this interaction is defined by the digital human-computer interaction. The digital-human is our identity (our actions, characteristics, location etc) as translated by the computer. Enabled by the popularity of a networked society, this identity is already beginning to take shape today, but with the profitability of large scale data collection as the driving factor. If we are to see a future where the computer fades into the background of life, or fully dematerializes, this digital identity must be reclaimed in full from those who currently control it.