Ubiquity is dedicated to helping professionals and informed laymen better imagine and understand the future of computing. Extraordinary Ordinary Things (EOT) 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 rather far apart, if not incongruous. In reality, they are quite close together, almost like conjoined twins. Computers today underly virtually everything that makes up the modern world, directly, but most often indirectly, by how they permit commercial, cultural, and scientific ideas to be converted into life-altering products and services. Extraordinary!
Author’s NoteContinue reading Plastic: Extraordinary Ordinary Things
I had certain trepidations about undertaking this topic for fear of being branded an apologist for the plastics industry. I am not an apologist; I am a reporter. However, in recent years, plastics and their uses have become so controversial that no matter what one says about them, it can be—and will be—construed as taking a position for or against them. No matter how hard one tries to be dispassionate.
Please bear this in mind as you read the following text.
