People who adopt home networking will enjoy features such as cell phones and handheld devices that serve as the user interface to the home, broadband video and audio that follow users to any part of the home, and interactivity that's no longer tethered to the desktop PC or game console. For the present, real-world home networks will be idiosyncratic and, often, messy. The only point that is certain is that home networks will proliferate and gradually increase in complexity in the next ten years. Businesses and consumers who embrace the challenges inherent to networking disparate devices and concentrate on the truly beneficial applications of this networked vision will enjoy the success and efficiencies that this evolving technology promises to provide. The study also looks at the opposing interests of businesses operating on a global level and national governments, throwing into question possible legal anomalies and examining how the role of regulation may change.
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This viewpoint is an oversimplification that ignores new and innovative distribution mechanisms as well as new and expanded markets that digital distribution enables. The postal services of both France and the United States want to provide e-mail addresses for the entire country, and the U.S. government would like to be the certifying authority for digital signatures for all its citizens. A Free Newsletter. Us Copyright 2001 SRI Consulting Business Intelligence.