In the past the great ideas that touch the consumer have been usually grown in the entrepreneurial small enterprise. This has been the fertile field that converts our science and technological development into consumer products and services. Our community has always supported those who establish themselves to cover niche markets. Here is where this whole thing can shine and pay for its own development. Give something back.
Government agencies can make life easier by offering real interactive service.
Education can broaden its reach by teaching online. Commerce can proliferate by using the technology to introduce new products. If you want technology in the home show us how to put it there. Don't expect us to be ready to whip out the wallet to scarf up electronic wallpaper because Bart Simpson tells us to do so. But giving us home security packages and utility monitoring hardware may lead to a readiness to accept greater technological benefit once we see and begin to believe that technology can help us meet the costs we bear at the end of the month.