Authors:
Mikael Wiberg
Today the sites of computing are increasingly blurred. On the one hand, there are seemingly nonexistent, dissolved, and widely distributed sites in the form of cloud computing. On the other, the sites of computing are ever more concrete, as computing is instantiated into physical materials, shapes, and forms—for example, in the emerging Internet of Things. Clearly there is a dual trend at play here that simultaneously stretches toward the immaterial dimensions of computing while moving in the direction of more material and tangible forms of computational objects. No matter its various forms and instantiations, computing is made accessible to…
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