“More and more we will see the development and distribution of objects with ‘fuzzy identities’. They will not be ‘this or that’. In different contexts, they will be different objects. This is not mere multifunction, it is liquid identity. What is unfortunate is that our object technologies are some 500 years in advance of our cognitive technologies. We were supposed to get liquid intelligence. Instead, we will have dolls that become beach towels, that are books, and diagnostic devices. That sort of thing. I think maybe we took the wrong fork somewhere?”

— an a i