Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.
Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.
What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.
When done well, software is invisible.
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
