{"id":8342,"date":"2021-10-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:39:54","slug":"the-computer-for-the-21st-century-mark-weiser-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/2021\/10\/29\/the-computer-for-the-21st-century-mark-weiser-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"The Computer for the 21st Century (Mark Weiser, 1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En septembre 1991, dans <em>Scientific American<\/em>, Mark Weiser, chercheur au Xerox PARC, d\u00e9crit l&#8217;informatique \u00ab ubiquitaire \u00bb : des ordinateurs partout, si bien int\u00e9gr\u00e9s au quotidien qu&#8217;ils disparaissent. \u00ab Les technologies les plus profondes sont celles qui disparaissent. \u00bb Et il oppose cette id\u00e9e \u00e0 la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 virtuelle, qui enferme l&#8217;utilisateur dans un monde fabriqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L&#8217;essentiel de l&#8217;absurdit\u00e9 du m\u00e9tavers est d\u00e9j\u00e0 d\u00e9crit dans cet article de 1991, surtout dans l&#8217;introduction. L&#8217;id\u00e9e revient tous les dix ans sous un nouveau nom, mais reste absurde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c0 lire : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~djp3\/classes\/2012_09_INF241\/papers\/Weiser-Computer21Century-SciAm.pdf\">l&#8217;article de Mark Weiser (PDF, en anglais)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voir aussi : <a href=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/?p=4640\">comment le m\u00e9tavers est devenu le paradis dont personne ne veut<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voir aussi : <a href=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/?p=35\">Taking a walk in the wood, in the cloud ?<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Partag\u00e9 lors d&#8217;un \u00e9change sur LinkedIn. Illustration : la ParcTab, l&#8217;un des appareils de poche de l&#8217;informatique ubiquitaire du Xerox PARC, photo Roy Want, CC BY-SA 4.0, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:PARC_Tab.png\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En septembre 1991, dans Scientific American, Mark Weiser, chercheur au Xerox PARC, d\u00e9crit l&#8217;informatique \u00ab ubiquitaire \u00bb : des ordinateurs partout, si bien int\u00e9gr\u00e9s au quotidien qu&#8217;ils disparaissent. \u00ab Les technologies les plus profondes sont celles qui disparaissent. \u00bb Et il oppose cette id\u00e9e \u00e0 la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 virtuelle, qui enferme l&#8217;utilisateur dans un monde fabriqu\u00e9. L&#8217;essentiel de l&#8217;absurdit\u00e9 du m\u00e9tavers est d\u00e9j\u00e0 d\u00e9crit dans cet article de 1991, surtout dans l&#8217;introduction. L&#8217;id\u00e9e revient tous les dix ans sous un nouveau&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/2021\/10\/29\/the-computer-for-the-21st-century-mark-weiser-1991\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memoire-de-linformatique","category-theme-information-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8451,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions\/8451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}