Article from 1998 about what the hitec home of last year (2005) would be like. intresting, and certainly all the technology is possible. leads me to wonder why it has not happened. perhaps people do not like to be overly reliant on technology. perhaps it is just no one has decided to develop it as a product.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/09/15/intel_thinks_intelligent_fridge/
From reading this it gives some user stories, important factors to consider is that any technology must not artificially limit what the user can do. I also think users want items on demand without a wait, or they may prefer to go without.
From my personal experience i will rarely use my laptop (even if i have it on me) for a quick piece of information as it takes so long to boot it up. However i will use my pda for such purposes even thougth it has a small screen and fiddly interface because it is quicker and therefore more practicle.
However it is clear we could go so far as to produce a complete network solution for every aspect of a users life. This is possible using current technology (althougth cost is a factor). However i feel that for the aspects of this project trying such i thing might be too wide rangeing.
Maybe the problem with the view of the then future, it requires at lot of investment in technology and different pieces of technology within that. maybe users are only prepared to buy if they see a definite benefit from one product, and they would want such a system to be proven before investing. Who would want to invest £1000’s in a network the’re not even sure they’d use.
let me know any comments on what you think – Al
this link worked when i posted it will look into it
The link still appears to work.
Yeah, technology is always Weey ahead of where we expected it to be 10 years ago. However, we’re always way behind with the practicle implementation of the technology as it takes a long time for it to become affordable at a consumer-level (plus the fact people are always resistant to changes anyway).