Anti-Mega mulls over the glues that hold together ubiquitous computing. Interesting list:
physical to digital glue (’inputs’):
CD ripper
DVD rippers
digital cameras
webcamsdigital to physical glue (’outputs’):
Airport Express
PVRs
video sendersdigital to digital glue:
web servers
APIs
UNIX-style pipes
wifi
3g
And this kicker:
Physical to physical glue is mainly cabling, or dual deck cassette recorders, and gradually dying out.
(via Anne Galloway)
Comments
@ 20:35
Seems like cabling is more a physical infrastructure for digital-to-digital glue. Is the RF spectrum not “physical” as cabling “dies out”? If I follow correctly, physical-to-physical would be items such as a radio transmitter, a record player, and a photocopier. No?