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The MIT Home of the FUTURE
Are Personal Robots Coming?
GREYTECH: Next Growth Market?
When a Brady Marries a Jetson…
Packet-Switching Telephony Gets Real
Home Office Networking: The Importance of Future-Proofing
Broadband and Home Networking Converge at the Gateway
Broadband Services and Home Networking
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Science & Technology Trends -- What is driving and enabling the Networked Home?  This question is common among homebuyers who don’t want their new home to become obsolete before they sell and move out (or even before they move in).  Builders also ask it, since they don’t want to add new features until customers demand them.  And companies that make the products, services, and technologies want to understand the market opportunities, leverage points, alliances and risks.  Although the question is simple enough to ask, the answer can be complex, since it is surrounded by a collection of market, economy and technology trends.

For insight into the answers, read my current article entitled “Twenty Technology Trends that Affect Home Networking”.

This is the first of three articles that will each examine key trends enabling and driving the development of the Networked Home.  The first article covers Science and Technology Trends, followed by articles on Market and Consumer Trends, and finally Social and Economic Trends.

About Data Networking -- Of the four primary home networks (Telephone, Entertainment, Automation/Control and Data), Home Data Networking is generating the most interest. Consumer demand is so hot that it attracted the computer industry's largest companies including Compaq, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. This is a phenomenon driven by the growth in Internet access, broadband communications, home offices, multi-PC households, and new classes of digital products. It will play an important role in the emerging digital e-conomy where new business models for commerce, education, entertainment, health care, and government will increasingly rely on consumer devices connected to high-value services.

Wayne is described as a home networking visionary, frequent speaker, and author. His vision includes consumers with easy access to services and service providers with equal access to consumers, all without worrying about wiring or incumbent competitors that control the infrastructure. Wayne recently retired from IBM after 30 years in development, systems engineering, marketing, strategy and market development. He was most recently the Marketing Chairman of the HomeRF Working Group, an industry association of over 100 companies with focus on wireless networking. Wayne is available for Home Systems consulting and can be reached at 512-335-6073 or wcaswell@K2Vision.com . He also just finished writing the market research report, “Information Appliances and Pervasive Net Access,”  which is available from Parks Associates.