Author here, sifting through the history of Ambient Computing and Adaptive Software, trying to figure out why it never took on.

Not only did it not take on, but the it seems as though the world has doubled down on the things Weiser was arguing against.

I claim that computing needs balance. It should be idealistically calm in the same way that it shouldn't be dopamine/attention exploiting

If you want to start a startup, chat me up!