TECHNOLOGY
Shipping day team
with natural , intuitive inputs . The same could be true for shared screens in public places .
What will it take to get there ? A few ingredients :
• Computers so small we forget we ’ re wearing them .
• Computers aware of our context : where we are and what we ’ re doing , so they can better understand what we intend without us having to tell them .
• Natural inputs that let us control technology the way we control everything else .
• A new metaphor to help us understand this new form of computing .
All of these ingredients exist today , save the last one .
We have wearable computers now , and they ’ re getting more fashionable , more popular , and smaller . We have contextually-aware systems , like
24 July 2016