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In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that...will pervade our lives in the very near future (The Wall Street Journal).

We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development, a world in which technology becomes more human. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and even learn to think ahead on our behalf. David Rose calls these deviceswhich are just beginning to creep into the marketplaceEnchanted Objects.

In Roses vision of the future, technology atomizes, combining itself with the objects that make up the very fabric of daily living. Such innovations will be woven into the background of o

Enchanted Objects

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      Publisher Scribner Book Company
      Published 28 April 2015
      ISBN-13 9781476725642
      978-1476725642
      ISBN-10 1476725640

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that...will pervade our lives in the very near future (The Wall Street Journal).

      We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development, a world in which technology becomes more human. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and even learn to think ahead on our behalf. David Rose calls these deviceswhich are just beginning to creep into the marketplaceEnchanted Objects.

      In Roses vision of the future, technology atomizes, combining itself with the objects that make up the very fabric of daily living. Such innovations will be woven into the background of o

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