Intelligent Living

Imagine. If you are building a new home or extending an existing one, are you network enabled? I only ask because life as we know it is about to change. Eventually most homes will be controlled by a computer centre that will entertain, keep us safe, anticipate our latest domestic problems and generally organise our home existence through a computer nerve centre networked throughout the house. Sounds like science fiction, doesn’t it?

Well, Bill Gates has called the period between 2002 and 2012 the “digital decade for consumers”. If you are still wowed by fuzzy logic in the washing machine, you are going to love what the next ten years has to offer. Imagine a home that can call the gardaí if it gets nervous, organise its own shopping list when things get a little scanty in the fridge and communicate with you at work.

Sleeping technology