Sentence examples for calm technology from inspiring English sources

Instead of the conventional desktop or laptop, Mr Weiser (who died in 1999) and one of his colleagues, John Seely Brown, predicted that in this new era of "calm technology" gadgets would adapt to people rather than vice versa.Still a wired world"Calm" is not a word typically associated with most personal technology today.

A central theme in the development of "calm" technology is to shift information from the center of a user's attention to the fringes, allowing the person to deal with information at a pace and at a moment that he or she is comfortable with.

This calm technology has the ability of going from the periphery of our attention, to the center, and back again [8].

In the realm of the vision of calm technology, we think that designing interactions with the digital world inspired by our peripheral interaction with the physical world, will enable digital technologies to better blend into our everyday lives.

Amber Case is the former CEO of Geoloqi, a past keynote speaker for SXSWi and at TED, and author of the O'Reilly book Calm Technology: Designing for Billions of Devices and the Internet of Things.

Notifications are going to be a sticky situation for developers, as nobody is going to want to know about every single like or comment that they get on a service, since that defeats the whole purpose of the "calm technology" that Glass brings.

Still, I think that the picture that is coming out of Nadella is that he's a calm, technology-minded person who understands the enterprise space.

The phrase "ubiquitous computing" was coined at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the late 1980s by the scientist Mark Weiser, and described a world in which computers would become what Weiser later termed "calm technologies": unseen, silent servants, available everywhere and anywhere.

While the legacy of Stanford-Silicon Valley collaborations looms large here, Mr. Tai believes calming technologies signal a paradigm shift.

Without the calm heads, latest technology and hundreds of backroom staff in Houston, Neil Armstrong might never have made that one small step.

Google calls the technology "calm," since it doesn't require you to pull a device out of your pocket, unlock a screen or tap any buttons.