From Agriculture era to Industry era and then from Steam engine era to Computer era, we now stand in a new ear of the Information Technology Development：Ubiquitous Network Era.
The goal of Ubiquitous Network is to create a scene sensation environment, where anyone can accept the network service at any time and in any place, the existing Human-Centered pattern is converted into a Human-Centered pattern. Since entering the 21st century, the developed countries, one after another, have incorporated the Ubiquitous Network concept into their national IT development strategies. With the development and application of the new technology, the communication pattern of the human society will also have tremendous change; which will again initiate a new round of changes.
In the 1980s, Ken Sakamura, professor, one of the founders of Ubiquitous Network, proposed that Ubiquitous Network will enable the whole world to share one computer! (Whole world, one computer!).
Ken Sakamura Mark Weiser
Professor at the University of Tokyo Ex-chief scientist in Xerox
One of the founders of the ubiquitous computing One of the founders of the ubiquitous computing
In 1991, Mr. Mark Weiser, professor, another founder proposed that computation in 21st is the Ubiquitous Computing, and he said that the most profound and powerful technology is the invisible technology and the technology which are integrated into and disappear in the daily life. Only when the computers enter into people’s life rather than forcing people enters into computer’s world, using the machines becomes freshly interesting just like one rambles in the woods. “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it”.
Ubiquitous Network scene (the tiny computers ubiquitous in people’s living space)