In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that…will pervade our lives in the forseeable future” (The Wall structure Street Journal).

We are now standing in the precipice of another transformative development, a world where technology becomes more human. Soon, linked technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday items we about Enchanted Items: Design, Individual Desire, and the Internet of Things currently use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our garbage cans. These items will respond to our needs, come to know us, as well as learn to think forward on our behalf. David Rose phone calls these devices-which are just starting to creep in to the marketplace-Enchanted Objects.

In Rose’s vision into the future, technology atomizes, combining itself with the objects that define the fabric of daily living. Such improvements will become woven into the background of the environment, enhancing human relationships, channeling desires for omniscience, long life, and creative appearance. The enchanted objects of fairy stories and research fiction will enter real life.

Groundbreaking, well-timed, and provocative, Enchanted Objects is certainly a “wonderful” (THE BRAND NEW York Moments) blueprint for a better future, where efficient solutions come hand in hand with technology that delights our senses. It is essential reading for designers, technologists, business owners, business market leaders, and anyone who wishes to take a glimpse in to the future.