I often get asked why I am taking classes and going back to school.

What is this thing you keep talking about?
Why do you think you need to go back to school?

To which I always answer: because I want to work on stuff that doesn't (always) involve a keyboard or a monitor or even a computer.

At least in the way we have been used to interfaces thus far.

This could be interacting with a touch screen or a device that has different ways of inputing or retrieving data.

I guess I am a Web 4.0 person living in a Web 2.0 world...

I found a passage from a book that says what I am going to study much more eloquently than I ever could:

"In the next few years, emerging practices in interactive architecture are set to transform the built environment. ‘Smart’ design was once regarded as the preserve of museum exhibits or Jumbotrom advertising screens, but 'multi-mediated' interactive design has started entering into every domain of public and private life as a spatial medium, interactive architecture is revolutionizing and reinventing our work, leisure and domestic spaces.

Fast-changing social contexts are dominated by the blurring of boundaries between work and play, information retrieval and use. Pliable and responsive digital environments raise the haptic and intuitive threshold of public and private space by harnessing physical and mental responses. Will interactive architecture embrace a wider scope of functions and experiences – from sensing mechanisms, to the info-lounge, to the ambient home environment and the holistic hospital – through customizable design possibilities? "

- from 4dspace: Interactive Architecture by Lucy Bullivant