Architecting the Human Intranet

Equipping us humans with the necessary tools to interact with, survive, and prosper in a rapidly changing world may require us to intimately adopt some of the same technologies that are causing some of these changes. Various wearable devices have been or are being developed to do just that. To be effective, functionality cannot be centralized and needs to be distributed to capture the right information at the right place. This requires a human intranet, a platform that allows multiple distributed input/output and information processing functions to coalesce and form a single application. How to effectively do so in light of the many challenges from an efficiency, usability, and effectiveness perspective is the focus of this paper.