(Length: 22 pages)

March 22, 2004

A Manifesto For The Digital Home

Experience Liberation For Consumers

by Paul Jackson

with Chris Charron, Charles S. Golvin, Josh Bernoff, Jaap Favier, Iris Cremers


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

The digital home — a single networking environment that allows a household to control and share entertainment, communications, and applications — will liberate consumer experiences from technology shackles. Killer applications will include video distribution, flexible storage, and enriched voice communication. But an explosion in functionality will lead to an explosion in control complexity. A universal, voice-enabled browser will solve this UI complexity and give the digital home mass appeal.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemWhat Is The Digital Home?

itemThe Manifesto For The Digital Home

itemWhat Stands In The Way Of Utopia?

itemBenefits Are Elusive For The Mass-Market User

itemDigital Home Technologies: Immature, Incompatible, Complex

itemBusiness Models Face The Innovator's Dilemma

itemThe Digital Home Means Experience Liberation

itemThe Six Families Of Digital Home Applications

itemKiller Apps That Will Liberate The Masses

itemA Voice-Enabled Browser Will Run The Digital Home

What it means

itemDigital Homes Alter How We View The World — And The World Views Us

itemSupplemental Material

For this document, we drew on conversations with a number of senior executives from device, media, telecommunications, service, and retail companies over the past year. In addition, we conducted in-depth interviews with 12 companies helping to shape the digital home, including: Apple Computer, ARCHOS, British Telecom, Creative Labs, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Linksys, Microsoft, Philips Electronics, Pure Networks, Sony Electronics, and Thomson.

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Analyst: Paul Jackson
Industry: Consumer Electronics, Consumer Technology, Media & Entertainment
Geography: Europe

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