For everyone who doesn’t know what ubiquitous means, I looked it up (on the internet) and it said the ability to be present everywhere at once and after thinking about it for a while I realized that in my opinion, this is the single most important aspect of the Internet which has changed our society. I know most people would say its the information thats most important but not all of it is right, you don’t know what to trust and it can actually be quite hard to find unless you already know where to look and besides you could always take ten minutes and go to the library to access the exact same information except that you know what your getting is real.
I have had a computer in my house since I was born, I can’t remember what kind of computer it was, the only thing I can remember about is that it played Space Invaders and Frogger. So I have always been around computers, I have always knowen how to use them. For me using a computer is second nature, its like switching on the tv. The closest thing we had to the internet before the internet were BBS’s, BBS stands for bulliten board system. These were used before the cd-rom was ever invented so don’t worry if you’ve never heard of it, most peop
I have seen us go from one user BBS’s in your area to code, to instantaneous access to computers and more importantly people anywhere on the planet. Which is the essence of ubiquitous computing. The ability to be sitting at your desk typing up a presentation due 8am the next day while downloading 4 songs from a guy in the netherlands, looking up information on a server located in south amercian, while your chatting with two people one who lives a block away and the other in Hong Kong. When you sit down at your computer and open your web browers or Kazaa or whatever you use, you can travel anywhere in the world and talk to anyone in world and if that wasn’t enough you can be in multiple of places at once! Its not really a question of how this will effect society but how it has effected society. In a few years we went from writing letters to people and making expensive long distance phone calls to relatives. To instant e-mails and making friends with a complete stranger on the other side of the planet. You could write a term paper on the complete implications of how this has changed our society. But basically unbiquitous computing has turned the world into more of a community, things arn’t so foriegn and people arn’t so differe
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