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> we're doing jack shit with technology in homes I think the problem there is the churn. If you built a 'smart home' ten years ago, it would be worse than usel

> we're doing jack shit with technology in homes I think the problem there is the churn. If you built a 'smart home' ten years ago, it would be worse than useless now. I do think we're due a shift away from 110v outlets everywhere, but I think a house that's in keeping with the technical possibilities will have to wait until those possibilities have stabilized.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> If you built a 'smart home' ten years ago, it would be worse than useless now. I know this is nitpicking, but still: I disagree. I think that home would be more useful than a smart home built today, because basic sensors and actuators today are very similar to those of 10 years ago, they talk over the same protocol (you screw your LED bulb into the same socket you used to screw an incandescent one into before), and most importantly, none of that was tied up with third-party Internet services. Consumer IoT of today is complete garbage because every vendor wants to be a platform, and doesn't want to interoperate with anything else. Back before IoT was a thing, home automation stuck to standards.