Whats the physical future of computers?
We’re going to be living in a world where cyberspace has been released from the screen in front of you, into our physical environment by means of embedded technology, in our walls, in our cars, in our fingernails, in our eyeglasses. Internet enablement will be everywhere you go. The devices you carry around will be far more sophisticated than the smart phones now, because they’ll be interacting with the environment, they’ll be taking note of the physical location, suck[ing] things out of the network. What are your privacy concerns? I’m very relaxed about privacy because there is none left. John Perry Barlow, a former lyricist with the Grateful Dead, was one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His life is public. He says that’s the only way to have privacy — expose it all and you have nothing to hide. What about the Internet’s downside? Kids have retreated out of the physical world into the cyber world. It gives them a larger reach, [but] they’re not getting out in t
