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What might the house of the future be like.9 Grace can tell. More formally known as the Microsoft Home, her high-tech devices, along with
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in design and construction, will change the
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we think about our homes.
You enter the house, and Grate"s
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, coming from hidden speakers, passes on your messages. In the kitchen, you set a bag of flour on the intelligently
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stone counter. Grace sees what you"re
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, and projects a list of flour-based food on the counter.
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you choose one, Grace repeats instructions for cooking. She
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knows what"s in the cupboard.
The day when your house will be like a family member is not that far off. This
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of seamless computing, in which technology is everywhere yet nowhere (
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when we want it) , is emphasized in most future-home thinking.
Microsoft,
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, isn"t the only one exploring
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technology can make our homes more
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and comfortable. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, scientists are
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systems that will allow older people to continue living
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. So Grandma"s home can be intelligently wired to
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her patterns of wake, sleep and movement; family members would be
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of any changes via computer.
Does spying on Grandma"s sound
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? Director Beth Mynatt says "A good bit of our
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has been working on how to convey information without
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privacy. We also don"t want to create
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anxiety. Maybe she just took a quiet day to read, and the system would have to recognize that."