“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”   – Mark Weiser, The Computer for the 21st Century, 1991. 21 years ago, in a paper for Scientific American. It can still be found here in draft form. I find this particular observation to be quite astute. Mr. Weiser continues to talk about technology becoming so commonplace that we don’t notice it, spend all our time with it, and just go on through our daily lives. Until, “The ‘virtuality’ of computer-readable data — all the different ways in which it can be altered, processed and analyzed … Continue reading ELQ Homewood