Attention Paid Versus Paying Attention in Pervasive Computing

作者：J. Paradiso, D. Siewiorek · 发表于：IEEE pervasive computing · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1109/mprv.2020.2986903 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Computer Science

FROM DREAMS TO DEVICES & VERNER VINGE, a noted science fiction author and retired computer science professor known to many of us, wrote a beautiful narrative on the seductive power of technology and knowledge in the preface of his award-winning 1992 novel “A Fire Upon The Deep”—a long-established theme in human lore that goes back at least to Adam and Eve. Ubiquitous sensing has deep roots in its own Tree of Knowledge—going beyond enabling today’s applications of convenience, it portends to abstract the notion of presence itself, potentially ushering in a new kind of digital “omniscience.” Vinge went on to give us a crushing depiction of life under ubiquitous sensing of several kinds in “Fire’s” 1999 prequel “A Deepness in The Sky,” then projected the promise, peril, and social change that such capability would provide in the near future with his subsequent 2006 novel “Rainbows End” (thought significant enough to our community for one of Vinge’s bridging novellas to be published in IEEE Spectrum in 2004). The wonderful, weird, and worrisome nature of this transformed world (very much enabled by Pervasive Computing) that Prof. Vinge and others envisioned early within speculative fiction is ever more palpable now, as it enters into the mainstream popular debate (e.g., see https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/ 2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html for a list of relevant articles published in The New York Times from June 2019 to February 2020). Accordingly, in this Special Is...