I look forward to the future where I can come home and my space will welcome me individually, turning on lights, media, and climate to my personal preferences, and respond to &quot;tea, earl gray, hot&quot; at any time. My groceries and other expendables will replenish as they run low; menu planning will stock more. I&#x27;ll get a chime when my kids arrive home, and another if their love interest show up after hours.  Etc etc.  All this information will be held strictly per my privacy settings and is fully encrypted when offsite.<p>Now, the real question is, how do we get there, integrated and private, without selling out the whole stack to 100 different vendors with different API&#x27;s, without one of them hacking the rest of your network, and without your government either hacking you, hacking one of those vendors, or just pressuring them for your data?<p>I don&#x27;t have an answer.