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# Ubiquitous computing
- URL: https://werd.io/ubiquitous-computing/
- Published: 2006-02-10T18:10:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:26.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

I'm writing this on the 5.32 oxford to london. Literally half the carriage - including me - is glued to their mobile phone. They're communicating, but at the same time sitting in a kind of eery silence. Is technology destroying our sense of community? Or is it replacing the need for polite conversation with the ability to talk with people we already know?