The Home of the Future

Like any passionate technologist, I enjoy imagining futuristic visions of plausible technology scenarios. Yet the pragmatic developer in me knows such visions don’t happen overnight. They require incremental steps in a number of related areas. But at some point, all those incremental services, discoveries, and technologies converge and create inflection points that forever alter the course of history.

I have been fortunate to participate in three major technology revolutions in my lifetime. The first was the introduction and rapid evolution of the personal computer in the 1980s. The second was the supernova expansion of the Internet in the 1990s, and the third was the mobile device revolution in the first decade of the ...

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