Programmable World #TechVision without concern about damage from washing, stretching, or sweat, and the researchers see potential for wearable technology made with this fabric. In time, projects like these will elevate the programmable world, driving a new generation of smart things with new capabilities, properties, and form factors, embedding the individual control and customizability of the programmable world into the material building blocks of physical reality. The Connected, Experiential, and Material layers of the programmable world will enable new ways to augment, customize, automate, alter, and otherwise “program” our physical environments – and they will introduce an entirely new competitive landscape. Digital technology is about to make its mark on the physical world, changing what we can do and how we live within it, and the companies that bring this technology to their employees’ and customers’ environments will quite literally be the ones to shape the next generation of life in this world. Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 48