TELEPHONE, TELEVISION, AND RADIO IN THE HOME OF THE FUTURE

The home of the future will have an all-digital network for all media, backed by multi-terabyte storage. Users will be able keep an entire lifetime of personal media, and vast collections of media that may be of interest for future viewing, reading, or listening. MyLifeBits is a personal store for a digital life, designed to support efficient organization, search, browsing, annotation, and viewing. This paper describes the telephone, television, and radio components of the MyLifeBits system.