Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things Audiobook (Free)

In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that…will pervade our lives in the very near future” (The Wall Street Journal).

We are now standing in the precipice of the next transformative development, a global where technology becomes more human being. Soon, connected technology will become embedded in hundreds of everyday items we about Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the web of Things already use: our vehicles, wallets, watches, umbrellas, also our trash cans. These objects will react to our requirements, come to learn us, as well as learn to think ahead on our behalf. David Rose telephone calls these devices-which are just starting to creep in to the marketplace-Enchanted Objects.

In Rose’s eyesight into the future, technology atomizes, merging itself using the objects that define the fabric of everyday living. Such improvements will become woven in to the history of the environment, enhancing human romantic relationships, channeling wishes for omniscience, long life, and creative expression. The enchanted objects of fairy tales and research fiction will enter real life.

Groundbreaking, well-timed, and provocative, Enchanted Items is certainly a “wonderful” (The New York Occasions) blueprint for an improved future, where efficient solutions come hand in hand with technology that delights our senses. It is vital reading for designers, technologists, business owners, business market leaders, and anyone who wants to take a glimpse into the future.