FOSTER CITY, Calif.—Computers as we know them are about to disappear. Well, okay, they won’t completely disappear, but they will take on a new form that makes them very difficult to distinguish from ...

Wireless connectivity is about to get even faster, and networks will soon be able to support more devices. This development brings us one step closer to the topic at hand: a world powered by ambient ...

Ambient computing is a tech trend whose time has come. It is going to impact many aspects of the way we live in a frictionless economy. Recently, Google SVP of Devices and Services Rick Osterloh said: ...

Amazon's Alexa chief predicts the end of the smartphone app era as ambient intelligence rises, reshaping how users interact ...

For decades now, tech companies have been promising us a future straight out of Star Trek. Instead of being confined to phones and computers, our digital lives would extend to a network of screens all ...

The technology industry is often defined by ground-breaking products or devices that we all consciously interact with on a daily basis. However, how people use technologies in the future is likely to ...

Some experts say it’ll be smart speakers (or the voice assistants that they feature) like Google Home or Amazon Echo. Others point to connected homes or self-driving, connected cars. Or drones. Or ...

In September 1991, Scientific American published an article by Mark Weiser, the then head of Xerox's PARC computer science laboratory, entitled 'The Computer for the 21st Century'. In that piece he ...

Everybody’s talking about ambient computing. And there is so much to talk about. But with all this chatter comes confusion. People disagree on what ambient computing is, how it works and what it’s for ...

Take a journey through its history, examples, potential downsides, the vendor space and beyond. Image: Erkan/Adobe Stock Ambient computing is a concept which is simultaneously both easy and convoluted ...

This isn't a manifesto. Nor is it a piece of futurist speculation. It's more of brain dump, flushing out things I've been thinking about for the last few weeks (and for the past couple of decades, ...