The usages of Everyware, while far reaching, are going to be more than your everyday person really wants from technology.
As shown in 59 and 60, the increase in technology according to Moore's Law is going to lead to technology that we think is still good today, being worth as much as a light switch in about ten years. The implications of this as stated are that we will be able to install processors and memory storage all over the house at what seems like a very reasonable rate. This is a wet dream for all of those scientists out there scheming and racking their brains trying to decide how to make Everyware applicable to the everyday person. What said scientist may not be thinking however, is that many people just do not care. As stated in thesis 58, what people want Everyware for is things like combining all the remotes into the house into one. A few other examples off of the top of my head might be an intercom system throughout the house that is integrated with the computer, or one switch that allows you to power down all the lights in your house with one push of a button. I, for one, am just fine to use a key to open my house door. I know that their is no way to electronically hack my lock, and if my key were stolen, I would know about it. This is a simple yet important mental comfort that locks by electronic recognition may not be able to provide.
After reading 57 it has really made me question how much of this new technology I really need/want.
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I think that this is where it starts though. We all see this advancement in technology as unnecessary, as did generations before us about the technology we have everywhere. Years ago people were fine with horses. Years ago people were fine with candles.
I think to achieve this ubiquitous "Everyware" it will take time because it's not magically "poof" then it is here. We want that universal remote, or that intercom system, or this or that...and then in 20 years our kids will want this and that...and eventually it will lead to this "future" we see in movies. It's so weird to think about this technology just being everywhere because for us it is unnecessary.
No one generation dreams of this sudden dramatic change we imagine is possible. It's about taking baby steps towards that future.
I'd like to see the progression of Everyware take smaller steps at first. To officially launch Everyware, it needs to come in a form that helps people not eat so much. Their toasters and stove tops verbally warn users to not consume so much and obesity in America will slowly be fixed. Then while America is happy with the results, Everyware can implement other life controlling forces until it's too late for us to realize a hostile machine takeover in a guise of helpful products. Sound far fetched and silly? I wouldn't want to think it was too late and that I could have been educated in the field of STS to realize the lurking dangers.
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