"Home networks will revolutionize the way consumers live and work in the home," said Tricia Parks, president of Parks Associates, in her opening address at the company's Forum'99 conference. "Builders of power," she  added, "are paying attention."

The October conference offered these predictions:

55 million people will have Internet access by 2002.

Structured Wiring will be installed in 40 percent of all new homes by 2004.

In the next 10 years, 20 million households will adopt home networks.

Telecommunications companies are creating a demand for structured wiring through intensive advertising campaigns. Soon, buyers will consider structured wiring as necessary as plumbing.

From the sidebar "Wired," by Cati O'Keefe.

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