Smart appliances to make power consumption more efficient?

[Msterbeau]

Wha'cha think?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081...ty-utility.html

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Definitely see it coming in a big way. I remember reading an interview with Bill Gates about 3 years back in which he said he didn't believe there would be home computers in 20 years; our appliances & devices would talk to each other and, when pooling their resources, provide all the computing power the average family needs. He didn't think there'd be a Microsoft in 20 years either, but that's another story...