[jacknews]

"The promise of ambient computing is that technology gets out of the way while becoming more helpful at accomplishing what we want. It anticipates our needs by understanding the context of our environment and situation. It serves us, rather than us serving it. "

This is the optimistic case. Perhaps more likely is that 'ambient' computing will smother us in surveillance, ads, 'nudges', restrictions (you seem tired or drunk, you may not drive), etc.

[visarga]

It will probably be both good and bad, but for certain is that we're going to live inside a computer. Every move monitored.