Mobile Ministry Magazine

A very nice article about the direction of computing was posted some time ago at A List Apart. Here is a sample from that article:

It is coming—and as yet, the people who will be most affected by it, the overwhelming majority of whom are nontechnical, nonspecialist, ordinary citizens of the developed world, barely know it even exists.

This is not due to any inherent obscurity or lack of interest in the broader field; to date, there have been some seven annual Ubicomp conferences, three Pervasives, and a wide scatter of smaller but otherwise similar colloquia. These are established events, in academic terms: well-attended, underwritten by companies such as Intel, Sony, Nokia and Samsung. There are at least three peer-reviewed professional journals exclusively dedicated to ubiquitous or pervasive computing. There has been no dearth of discussion of everyware…but little of this discussion, and virtually none that might offer enough information on which to build meaningful choices, has reached the mainstream.

Read the rest of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. There is also a link at the bottom of the article to purchse the book written on this subject. Understanding the times is most appropriate to this ministry, and to any ministry that wants to continue to serve within this changing world.