C @ S @: the common home automation.
My grandfather told me about the evening as the country was alive in his time. Electricity had not arrived yet. In the streets the few pedestrians were made to light the lamp with oil. The windows of the houses they lived reflections of the flames of the hearth, and waved their shadows on the street. There was also light in the windows of some stable. heat produced by animals there people gathered in groups, passing the time talking and telling, in "file" as they used to say. The country lived in the first be the dark of night in the breath of an interplay of light and shadow, the echo of words, jokes and greetings before breaking up in deep silence of the night.
Now the country is different. The cobbled streets of the asphalt has been replaced, the houses are all refurbished. The City has floodlit all roads. But the country seems to be a wilderness of light that illuminates holiday death. Does not filter down from the shutter a ray of light. You may think that they are all inhabited, if you do not feel out of voices. They are not the voices of the people of the country, but the metallic ones, impersonal television. All were closed in the house, including silent them to suffer the images and words that come from the TV.
It states that there will be a further development, that of home automation. The shutters will close by itself arrival of the owners and self s'accenderà television, while the heating is switched on at a distance, even before the owner arrives home. The house will be more welcoming, even intelligent to understand, even after the wishes of the people and adapt to their needs.
ending on the inhabitants of the house, perfect ... like a coffin, because the resident can do just the dead, to undergo the technology that drives the house, the television that the sales pitch. The intelligent man in his house will not nothing more to do, nothing to think, just like a dead man in his chest ....
How to quit? Back to the past of the story of my grandfather? It would not make sense! The solution, a true tale of the future has found the new mayor of my town.
The country was covered by a virtual network of broadband connections in every way that we can connect to the Internet. He put together a cluster of companies that have produced an interactive television, and the City has implemented a funding scheme will benefit because all the families could adopt the new instrument. It is of a large 52-inch LCD screen that transforms the living room of every house into a home theater. But it is not a television but it is the monitor of an internet that allows you to watch TV channels, but also to interact.
Every family has become so computer cell of the hive that has turned the country! ...
E 'was thus possible to resume the evening "in file" was talking about his grandfather. But there is no need to go in the stalls, you can be easily sunk the couch lounge. The screen the special television may be divided up to 100 small squares and each square is occupied by the image of a person who participates in a discussion. The system is programmed for a minute to give the word to those who ask, and this requires people to be succinct and make in the debate. The person speaking is automatically placed at the center of the screen, and you can see the other 99 listened.
There are more discussion groups, so that everyone can throw a theme, setting the time for the opening of the debate. Interest of the theme depends on the number of participants. Some have agreed to see the same movie and then discuss it and have thus given rise to a film club in the country. Others see the same game of football, dividing the screen into two parts, one can see the game and the other viewers in the network of the country with their comments. It is also a widespread fashion of virtual travel: it takes a group agrees to visit a museum or a city and then put together the picture that you are back, the comments were made ...
For some days, there has also been a debate over how to rewrite the history of the country and everyone is working hard to recover documents, while discussing the various theories and legends that are known to country. Participants also believe that immigrants so, develop a process to identify the country, which also develops in them the spirit of belonging.
interesting debate that has developed on the fact that once the country was defined as "neighbors" and then as mayor of the new technological reforms could help rebuild the country a true "vicinia" the development of the new Close relationships between the families ...
Equally interesting is the fact that this virtual life of the country can also participate in migrants and in fact the discussion groups are also involved people from France and Switzerland and even Australia. As each house has a television so each person is equipped with a handheld remote control that serves as it also allows you to download the programs. So people can stay connected even when away from home and even outside the country.
What had changed most in the town was the relationship between citizens and administration. The Mayor anticipated in the Internet is all the resolutions of the Executive Council that the Council's deliberations and opened a debate estimate, a sort of opinion poll, which was then taken into account during the meetings convened to approve it formally. The Mayor first and foremost, but also all the Councillors had opened a forum for discussion with citizens. It was then possible to take home and have any kind of document municipal, and documents of other bodies that the City was responsible to obtain on behalf of its citizens.
The village school was endowed with an interactive television that replaces the traditional blackboard and the students are distance learning using the internet as a source of information and links with other schools in the world who use similar systems. In the afternoon, then the system is used to set up working groups for after-school activities, enabling a single teacher to follow multiple groups of schoolchildren who form, both on the monitor at home than on the school, a virtual classroom. With this system, even the students who are ill can continue to take lessons from home. While parents may enter the pages of their children to school whether they are present, but also to know in real time the votes. All students then, as citizens have a handheld device with which you can participate in virtual classroom and download their homework, and in the spring days can participate in after school by sitting in the shade of some trees in the country and winter walking on snow.
the portal of the country were open pages for each family, often made so that you can fill with ease. All data were mail addresses firstname.lastname @ ilpaese.it and the fact he helped develop the identification process. However they were also organized meetings in which the grandchildren to grandparents explained how to fill the pages, such as chat, phone calls with Skype as seeing the other person, and all their families have made a small site with the story of their family.
The grocer, the butcher, the baker have made a site a bit 'more complex with the opportunity to order their products online. So have some local producers, especially of food products. It 'so now you can order from home for every family expenditure made in the country and local producers is on the "short chain" beneficial to both producers and consumers. There was the question of who should lead the spending ordered via the web ... The Mayor was able to get the Post Office contract to a cooperative of young people the service of delivering mail, and these have been organized to bring the mail over the products ordered online, ordered the drugs to the pharmacy ...
He joined the system, even the village doctor, the barber, a hairdresser and other providers of services for which you can book tours and meetings, to avoid the queues. A young man a bit 'reckless, computer enthusiast, had proposed to involve the parish priest to book a confession, but they had shielded the idea was dropped, as it had fallen much more ... "The confessions are like death," had supported the old pastor, "not you can book! "And faced with a categorical statement that he had to give up the enthusiasm of the Mayor for technological innovation.
The young man was rather successful in developing a system where the old could meet virtually to play cards, and even the morra, avoiding going out in bad weather. He had then placed in association with others youth of the country and had activated a software company that teleworking had customers throughout Europe and the USA.
Once the mayors stood out in proclaiming their town "denuclearization" our wanted to distinguish the first municipality proclaimed "demonetized" of the world. At his initiative, the Cooperative has established a postal convention with items for which the employees have been equipped with an instrument that charges the credit cards. All residents have then had supplied a card that is recharged at home and can do any kind of expenditure in the country. The glass of wine at the bar is paid with the card and in the country has gone so the use of money. The instrument is also supplied to the postal functions of ATM, it is therefore possible for the inhabitants supplies at home that will have to spend money outside the country.
Even the pastor who had experienced problems in the book of confessions has adapted to the system and has given the clerk a card reader. So during the Mass is no longer rotating with the bag of offers but with an instrument in which the parishioners insert the card and type in the desired range.
The computer that controls the monitor in the living room is also a server that receives impulses from inside the house and send them outside. So he turned on a central assistance to the savings that monitors the consumption of electricity and gas to every home, advising interested parties in the event of abnormal situations. More important is the result obtained with the system in terms of home care. All those who have problems are monitored with sensors that keep the values \u200b\u200bthat should be kept under control, and at the rest home has set up a center able to intervene whenever the system reports the changes out of the norm. So, especially for the elderly, was thus able to reduce welcome nursing homes, home care, emphasizing
Even in the fairy tale world all is not to bean ... In our country, the Mayor is criticized, as in all countries, especially from the opposition. Who is the other side in fact, no one knows whether as a matter of principle od'intelligenza can not admit that the technological revolution introduced by the mayor of the miraculous in global level, has it dispelled the idea that technology is dehumanizing, and transformed it instead into a means to make his country a true "close", a means of bringing together people, the reporting system for virtual encourage the development of interpersonal relationships.
With the new system, however, the mayor got the advantage of being able to directly determine people's opinions, and supported by polls that give likings of around 90% (including mine!) Goes on undeterred in its reform Home automation for the city. Greetings! ...
