More on mainstream wired homes

[patrickl@xxxxxxx]

>From todays Evening Standard on-line (www.thisislondon.com) -
following in Barratt's footsteps... Despressingly lacking in _real_
innovation.

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Singapore 'to build techno-homes'

Singapore is planning to build futuristic new public housing
apartments with remote-controlled appliances, automatic lights and
room-to-room computer networks.

The Straits Times newspaper has reported that families in the
new "information hub" homes can play online games with each
other,
swap music files and share a common printer from computers in
virtually every room.

Residents in the new Housing and Development Board or HDB apartments
will be able to control their appliances from any room with hand-held
wireless devices, the newspaper said.

Some of the homes will come with motion detectors that automatically
switch on lights and air conditioners, it added.

For several years, Singapore has been on a drive to become a
computerised society in order to cash in on what the government calls
the "knowledge-based economy" of the 21st century.

More than 80% of Singapore's four million people live in HDB
apartments in high-rise blocks that tower over much of the island's
landscape.

Singaporeans are urged to do everything from grocery shopping to
paying their taxes online. The government is working to link all
homes, schools and businesses into a high-speed cable computer
network called "Singapore ONE."

One of Singapore's taxi companies announced this week that is
outfitting some of its cabs with internet connections to let
passengers log on while they ride.

The Straits Times report did not say when the first of the
new "wired" homes would be completed.

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Patrick




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