There are also ongoing efforts to create intelligent machines for the home.

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In the practical use case of a connected home, bandwidth will always be limited, but intelligent network management helps address this.

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Running on these mobiles, and also on home and wide-area networks will be increasingly intelligent software, able to learn behaviour, predict needs and integrate with a growing number of databases, such as transport updates from major providers.

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But the intelligent coffee table of the future may be the central computing device in your home.

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As beads flew, liquids spilled and bad music thumped, I remember thinking it impossible that an intelligent, generous man with the most refined tastes could ever have called a place like this home.

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An intelligent individual who takes no orders, protects his local economy and is man enough to drive the message home.

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