Acknowledgments

The three greatest friends this book ever had have been Liz Danzico, Howard Rheingold and Christina Wodtke. very simply, Everyware would not exist without their influence; my gratitude to them is immense. I would also like to thank Peter Morville and Jeffrey Zeldman for their crucial early enthusiasm.

At Peachpit, Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel showed extraordinary faith in my vision for this book, affording me leeway few authors ever enjoy; I was both moved and inspired. I would like to thank Marjorie Baer, Michael Nolan and Camille Peri for their insightful and untiring efforts on behalf of this book.

I would particularly like to thank my editor, Dan Littman, for being a stickler when I needed him to be, and indulging me otherwise. Everyware is immeasurably better for his exertions.

I owe untold debts of gratitude to my wonderful hosts: at the University of Oslo's InterMedia program, Andrew Morrison and Idunn Sem; Spreeblick's Johnny Haeusler and Tanja Kreitschmann; at Ci'Num, Marcel Desvergne, and, at Aquitaine Europe Communication, Hervé Le Guyader, Thierry Ulmet, Frédéric Autechaud and their entire event-planning staff. In every case, they made me feel more like family than guest.

My thanks to victoria Bellotti, Leo Fernekes, Christian Kray, Nicolas Nova, and David Small for their assistance in clarifying certain details of the text.

I could not have written a word without a very good set of earphones and the 4,758 tracks I have in iTunes, especially the music of Alarm Will Sound, Amon Tobin, Do Make Say Think, Brian Eno, Four Tet, Godspeed you Black Emperor!, the various incarnations of John Zorn's Masada, Mogwai, Michael Nyman, Arvo Pärt, and Sigur Rös...leavened by the occasional hit of Stooges. I was equally dependent on the Rose Reading Room of the New york Public Library, where most of Everyware was written, and the circa-1961 Swan chair I sat in while writing most of the rest.

Yasmine Abbas, Rachel Abrams, Timo Arnall, Paul Baron, Pete Barr-Watson, Gene Becker, Wayne Berkowitz, Carrie Bickner, Rebecca Blood, Bryan Boyer, Abe Burmeister, Ben Cerveny, Michele Chang, Jan Chipchase, Tom Coates, Eric Culnaert, Alan Dix, John Emerson, Jyri Engeström, Daniel Erasmus, Chris Fahey, Jim Faris, Naoto Fukasawa, Raye Fukuda, Anne Galloway, Liz Goodman, Kelly Goto, Steve Graff, Raphael Grignani, Chris Heathcote, Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, Dan Hill, Steph Hüfgel, Mimi Ito, Matt Jones, younghee Jung, Gen Kanai, Nurri Kim, Daniel Kaplan, Dirk Knemeyer, Mike Kuniavsky, Ranjit Makkuni, Joe McCarthy, Mike Migurski, Craig Mod, Jamie Mowder, Herbert Muschamp, Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, Andrew Otwell, Chris Palmieri, John Poisson, Odd-Wiking Rahlff, Eric Rodenbeck, Celia Romaniuk, Fabio Sergio, Carsten Schwesig, Jack Schulze, Steve Silberman, Kevin Slavin, Molly Wright Steenson, John Thackara, Thomas vander Wal, Matt Ward, Matt Webb, Even Westvang, Daniel Wolpert and John Zapolski were instrumental in helping me formulate my ideas, whether they knew it or not.

While they must be held blameless for any errors in fact, emphasis or judgmentall of which are of course my owntheir influence on this book is impossible to overstate. I thank them for the fellowship, the conversations and the wonderful memories, across three years and an equal number of continents.

I'd also like to thank my loyal readership at v-2.org, and Amy Hammersmith, Ian Jacobs, Anthony Leone, Jamie Mowder and Sharon Stark for their enduring friendship, without which no writer can survive.

My wife Nurri Kim has always been my fiercest advocate and toughest critic. She is the core of my life and beacon of my days.

And finally, I want to thank my mother, father, and sister, for the fact that I grew up in a house of words, ideas, and loving challenges. There can be no overstating the magnitude of this gift, and in a very deep sense, every word I write belongs to them.

Photo by Nurri Kim, ©2006

ADAM GREENFIELD is an internationally recognized user experience consultant and critical futurist, having worked for clients ranging from global concerns like Toyota, Capgemini, and Sony to local nonprofits.

Before starting his current practice, Studies and Observations, Adam was lead information architect for the Tokyo office of well-known Web consultancy Razorfish; prior to that, he worked as senior information architect for marchFIRST, also in Tokyo. At various points in his career, he has also been a rock critic for SPIN magazine, a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic, a coffeehouse owner in West Philadelphia, and a PSyOP sergeant in the Special Operations Command of the U.S. Army.

With a particular interest in the interplay between mobility and the user experience, Adam organized the first international Moblogging Conference in Tokyo in 2003, acclaimed as the world's first symposium devoted to the practice of Web publishing from mobile devices. More recently, Adam sat on the final jury for the Fusedspace competition on novel uses of information technology in public space.

A co-founder of Boxes & Arrows, a Web-based journal on interactive design and information architecture, Adam speaks frequently before a wide variety of audiences on issues of design, culture, technology and user experience. His Chrysler Design Awardnominated personal site can be found at www.v-2.org.

Adam lives and works in New york City with his wife, artist Nurri Kim.