Resumen
Ubiquitous computing is not only influencing one's lives, but one's livelihoods. Indeed, traditional career choices and paths will require fundamental attitude adjustments. The traditional institution of career belongs to a world in which professional knowledge changes relatively slowly. In such circumstances it was feasible for people to make a one-time investment in themselves at the beginning of their working lives. Globalization and the ubiquity of information technology are two ways of referring to the same process. Globalization's driving imperative is technological, not political. A critical issue is how working life will be organized. The very nature of the psychological and moral organization of work into jobs and careers is changing as a result of the new technologies. While these effects cannot be statistically measured yet, there are some areas where they are already apparent. Ubiquitous computing changes working life and it does so in ways more subtle and radical than commonly perceived. It makes some of the traditional institutions in which work has been packaged redundant. As ubiquitous computing continuously transforms the stock of knowledge, so does it make many of the practices one has inherited from the past less workable.