In the last two weeks there have been a spate of newspaper articles about home automation. Here are the pointers:
Kate Goodloe and John Jurgensen's The Smart Home discusses having your home send pictures and messages to your cell phone, mostly by using monthly services or costly professionally-installed options. (You, of course, know that doing this yourself is a lot more fun and significantly less expensive.)
Next up is Linda Matchan's Home of Tomorrow . Predicting the future is always dicey, but the author does a good job of projecting how home technology is changing. Often, but looking at what early-adopters are already doing. (Ahem.)
Finally, providing a nice measure of realism, is Ryan Chittum's article about the "home of the future" predictions from the recent past still haven't come to pass, despite the best efforts of marketers and visionaries.