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Your Life In 2020 The future of “ubiquitous computing” has been heralded for decades. It sounds grandiose—computing, everywhere!—but ironically, a future of ubiquitous computing is one where computers actually go unnoticed. That’s 2020. It is when Nicholas Negroponte’s assertion in 1995 of “being digital” switches to “been digital” because we will have been there and done that. Kids who have grown up stealing free views of recent movie releases onling or regularly chatting with a friend in Bangalor or Atlanta will be work where the notion of “work” has changed because of digital technology. But it’s no longer “technology” in 2020 anymore—it’s just how we get things done. Consider attempts by schools to quell mobile phone usage in the classroom. In many parts of Asia, where the mobile phone took hold sooner than in the U.S., schools have given up. To a studend in Hong Kong, their mobile phone is as vital as the beating of their heart. The word ‘mobile’ meanes your world can all “go”with you, and by 2020 it will be too hard to imagine going without. But if technology and the ability to be connected disappear future into the background, what will occupy our foregroun? A bit of the humanity we’ve always valued in the搑eal world.擫egislators who are currently fixated on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education as the key to innovation will realize that STEM needs some STEAM—some art in the equation. We’ll witness a return to the intergrity of craft, the humanity of authorship, and designcentered approaches to making things, where you—the individual—will take center stage in culture and commerce . The software industry is poised to embrace its craft heritage. By 2020 software will return to a cottage industry, with bespoke applications made by many, rather than today’s industrialized, microsoft—esquemass production and distribution model. It will be part of larger world movement to make things by hand, infused with emotion and intergrity. This phenomenon