I love how Greenfield tries to sell the idea of a ubiquitous system as something of an upgrade to what you can "already" get. We are far away enough from the ideal Jetsons ubiquitous systems to not have a choice. If Everyware is going to serve, it will do so regardless of what the population says or wants. Here he makes it sound like more of a burden than something that can "simply show us a parking space." I'll say that by 2020, something of the sort will be mainstream in society and we'll have never seen a chance to "buy the basic package".
Concerning processor speeds, multi-core processors have hit the market and blown what we thought was powerful out of the water. I remember surfing the net on a 533 Mhz Pentium III and thinking, "Wow, this is FAST!" That was 1999. This being less than ten years ago, it's easy to see that computer progression utilized technological advancements to increase overall production and decrease size. The multi-core processor has just been a manifestation of a processor of processors in the most recursive thing I've ever seen. Working at Best Buy last summer, I used such explanations as, "it's like opening up a second register at lunch hour." Throw in some key words like delegate and people think they understand what's going on when all they really need to know is that it's faster. I just can't wait until my cell phone boasts a "Tera-core" processor.
