The final stimulus session starts. The 20:20 (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) format is really keeping things moving fast!

Chris says that technology wants to be ubiquitous. A truly ubiquitous technology is taken for granted, think of paper, the car, the mobile phone. Adoption rates for new technologies vary dramatically and the timescales for adoption are reducing significantly over time. Chris shows examples over the last century.

Remedial technology is probably not going to be truly ubiqitous. The most effective are open-ended technologies and technology specializes as fast as it becomes common.

CO2 emmisions and viruses are examples of the problems that occur as technology becomes common.

Progress towards uniquity creates divisions – for example between those who have access to the technology and those that don’t.

Technology is always becoming smarter.

The third paradigm “Calm Technology” is ubiquitous computing -from the single user mainframe to the personal computer. Calm technologies move from the periphery to the center of attentionand back to the periphery again.

He finishes with a reference to an art exhibit in which a piece of string was connected to a motor, and the motor controlled by an ethernet – effectively showing network traffic.

And that concludes the stimulus talks, leaving the room a center of activity and conversation.

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