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AUSTIN, Texas, Mar 15, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- "Ubiquitous computing" is at hand with technology able to monitor and record most aspects of daily life, author Adam Greenfield told a Texas conference.
"This is not blue sky, speculative science fiction," Greenfield told the South by Southwest Interactive conference. The everyday applications exist, he said.
Aside from significant civil liberties considerations, The San Francisco Chronicle reported, Greenfield said the latest technology isn't always "pretty."
"I see a lot of misery," he said. "I see people's toilets crashing. How much in our homes are wired and subject to the blue screen of death?"
Greenfield said he hopes his book, "Everywhere," gets noticed by more than technology geeks.
"It kills me that there hasn't been more discussion," he told the Chronicle. "I have no illusion that government or business are going to do it. It's going to take a lot of pressure from the bottom."
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