Amigo
Recently I came across a video overview of the Amigo project, which is developing "ambient intelligence for the networked home environment." It's a pretty standard day-in-the-life-of-the-home-of-the-future video.
Like many of these videos, the point is to give readers a sense of what life in the networked, infomated future would be like. The challenge you always have with these videos is that there's a tension between highlighting the technology-- which is all about novelty-- and focusing on the people and how they live-- which is probably not going to be so very different. As a result, some of these videos inadvertently make the home of the future look as appealing as a PC, because they choose to foreground the interactions people will have with their smart doors or mirrors in their hallways.
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Isn't that a little Big brother?
Posted by: LM | February 16, 2008 at 07:11 AM