This NY Times article, With Wires in the Walls, the Cyberhome, talks about “smart” homes. I just bought a digital thermostat, and in addition to our lights-on-a-timer, we’re fairly with the times. Why would someone need to go online to adjust their thermostat from work? The only thing I’m really looking for is a device to hook my stereo up to my LAN to receive streaming music or play mp3s from my PC.

You can spend several hundered thousands dollars to create a fully produced experience:

They now have video screens in most rooms and a tiny camera over the crib in the baby’s room. If the baby cries, the music in the networked audio system fades and the video screen tunes in.

But why think about this when there’s a war going on?