The Digital Home in 2013

Superb new site, “The Industry Standard” has published a great series entitled, “The Digital Home in 2013″.  It covers everything from networked garage doors to cloud computing to IPTV anytime, anywhere on anything.

Here’s the introduction:

“It’s 2013, and you’ve just come home from work. As you pull into the driveway, you reach into your pocket and swipe the screen of your smartphone with your thumb. Your garage door opens and the lights in your house turn on. The TV queues up the shows you missed while you were working late. Your favorite songs are following you from the living room to the kitchen. Then you stop. The phone blinks and warbles at you. The fridge says you forgot the milk.

It’s the HD/wireless/automated/streaming/sych’d/ready-to-entertain house of the future, and you’re living in it.

Welcome home.

In the following pages, you’ll be treated to a glimpse of the toys and technologies that will grace your home in the not-so-distant future. If you are like most people, you probably have already sampled some of them, but others — such as automated home control and personal applications of cloud computing — haven’t made it into people’s homes … yet.
In a few cases, you may be forced to reconsider some of today’s popular consumer technologies which will be headed toward obsolescence five years from now. To that end, there’s a summary of technologies that are destined for the scrapheaps of 2013, including Blu-ray and standalone desktop operating systems.

So sit back, strap on your sense of imagination, and get ready to step into the digital home of 2013.“

High speed telecommunications

It’s an HD world

Gaming gets real

Reach out and touch something

Automated home control

Green goes mainstream

Welcome to the cloud

The rise of streaming media

Online distribution of TV and Movies

Collaborating across town and across the world