Ubiquity is dedicated to helping computing professionals and informed laymen better imagine and understand the future of computing. Extraordinary Ordinary Things is dedicated to bringing to mind truly world-transforming things that have become so embedded in daily life that we scarcely even notice them.
These two ideas may seem to be rather far apart, if not incongruous. In reality, they are quite close together, almost like conjoined twins. Computers today underlie virtually everything that makes up the modern world, either directly, but most often indirectly, by how they permit commercial, cultural, and scientific ideas to be converted into life-altering products and services.
When I was a child growing up in Los Angeles in the 1940s, a sure sign that I had passed an important milestone in my development was when I was allowed to “put on big-boy pants.”
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