Questions from Phil on Mc Cullough_DIGITAL GROUND: Architecture, Pervasive Computing and Environmental Knowing

QUESTION on MALCOLM MCCULLOUGH READING:

#1
One of the main ideas behind pervasive computing is the idea of foreground/background in which technology can be found. Right now it sits mostly in the foreground, taking up a lot of our attention and time, whereas pervasive/soft technology wants to put more of it into the periphery of our environments, i.e. in the background, to reduce the amount of stress associated with "interfacing" with them. Do you think we can actually achieve this task of setting "widgets" in the periphery/background of our environments and still make them usable/usefull and if so will they actually remain "peripheral"?


#2
McCullough suggests the idea of this overwhelming sea of information in which present day bureaucracies can even deal with the amount of data/information they have in an efficient manner. Ubiquitous computing will only create an exponential amount of data compared to what we are used to today, now how will these "systems" deal with this incredible amount of information and make sense out of it, or will they even be able to? 

#3
  In this too much information informative?

#4
Why would we put so much time, effort and money in creating this technology which will probably end up alienating us anyway? Aren't there better things to do..?

#5
Security, Privacy, Intimacy!?!?!?!?!?!?