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Editor's Note:Every system can become smarter, efficient, and more valuable by factoringin presence information. Society's embrace of instant messaging hasshown that a great deal of importance is placed on presence-enabled contactlists and instant connectivity. Even traditional resource managementsystems such as automated routing use availability and presence to selectand connect people to the best available agent in a call center. Multimediaconferencing takes presence information a step further and asks thequestion of how to connect people based on their disparate communicationcapabilities. But all these uses of presence information, as exciting asthey are now, and as much potential to develop further as they all have,are but a tip of the iceberg of the communication revolution ahead. In thefuture, the wealth of presence information驴and the kinds of informationwe are able to obtain驴will change everything.We can use new technologies驴including sensors, wireless, image analysis,motion detection, and embedded systems驴to capture, monitor, andtrack presence, action, and even intention. In this new era of pervasive presenceinformation, why would my phone simply ring when my entire officecould be used to alert me that someone wants to contact me? In this article,we learn of the exciting work done by the group FoAM, in which entireenvironments are transformed into responsive spaces where people are inextricablypart of influencing their environment by their presence, actions, andeven intentions. FoAM offers a small window into the future of presencetechnology驴where a personýs intentions, as well as their actions, can effectchange. 驴Dorée Duncan Seligmann