Our demise: Global Warming, Oil ... and Ubiquitous Computing

According to William Gibson (writer of the famous novel Neuromancer) one of the biggest challenges that we humans face in the present is Ubiquitous Computing.

One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally impossible. The distinction between cyberspace and that which isn't cyberspace is going to be unimaginable.

This is perfectly visible in the amount of possible ways we can get on the internet: through our home computers, laptops at the airport/train station/coffeeshop, smartphones, pda's ..

The virtual world doesn't run parrallel with ours, but is completely intertwined. It is ever-present and will only be playing a bigger part in the lives of each and every one of us in the coming years.

Source: RollingStone