Where will we be in 2020?
Will the connected household be more efficient at resource management? Or will the ideal Home of the Future remain elusive? A highly engaged, diverse set of respondents were asked by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project to answer this question in an online, opt-in survey. It included 1,021 technology stakeholders and critics.
Survey participants’ opinions about the potential of smart systems were nearly evenly divided.
Some 51% agreed with the statement:
By 2020, the connected household has become a model of efficiency, as people are able
to manage consumption of resources (electricity, water, food, even bandwidth) in ways that place less of a burden on the environment while saving households money. Thanks to what is known as “smart systems,” the Home of the Future that has often been foretold is coming closer and closer to becoming a reality.
Some 46% agreed with the opposite statement, which posited:
By 2020, most initiatives to embed IP-enabled devices in the home have failed due to
difficulties in gaining consumer trust and because of the complexities in using new
services. As a result, the home of 2020 looks about the same as the home of 2011 in
terms of resource consumption and management. Once again, the Home of the Future
does not come to resemble the future projected in the recent past.
Read the rest of the report at the Pew Research Center's The Future of Smart Systems
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