The invisible computer is called Chumby
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Norman, the psychologist of POET fame (Psychology of Everyday Things) who gave the world the concept of device affordance, shot one of its last shells across the bow in his “Invisible: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution“. His theory is simple: make computing in an infrastructure, say like electricity, and computers into appliances, say like microwave ovens. Instead of one desktop, seed the house with 10-20-50 minicomputers, each doing one thing really well. Chumby takes this challenge to the natural conclusion, as far as content is concerned. Make information into something to be be attended at, not something to be pulled from the bowels of the best (aka, Internet).
