sensors and motion detectors Software agents Affective computing Nanotechnology Biometrics Computing This means of computing links all pieces of technology together. This also allows the device to have the capability to remember past requests. Uses in fiction Minority Report (2002 film). One scene illustrates adaptive advertising in the future: consumers are identified via retinal scans, and receive targeted ads. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The doors have emotion, and express this when people use them. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson depicts a world completely changed by the full development of nanotechnology that is present everywhere. Her (2013 film). The opening scene depicts the protagonist commuting home, upon arriving the various lights throughout the apartment are turned on as the character moves through the rooms (automated lighting control). A later scene shows that an artificial entity can also control these systems, changing a song being played in the background to lighten a situation, and for humorous effect. See also Ambient awareness Ambient media Augmented reality Autonomous agent Context awareness Context-aware pervasive systems Cyborg Embodied agent Friendly artificial intelligence Intelligent agent Intelligent control Internet of Things Edge computing Mobile computing Multi-agent system PositiveID RFID Sensor Smart, connected products Software agent Software bot Ubiquitous computing Wireless sensor network References Bibliography External links SAME Series – Semantic Ambient Media Series Workshop STAMI Series – Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI). International Workshop Series. Sensami – a congress on ambient intelligence. AITAmI – Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence" IJACI – The International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence JAISE – The International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. AISE – Book Series on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. I-o-T.org – Internet of Things : mainly based on Ambient intelligence AmI – International Joint Conferences on Ambient Intelligent Iranian inventions