5-10 years from now? The Microsoft Recliner was first rev'd in 2001.
Besides, all of these gizmos are and will be wireless. Cat5 is so last millenium
I mean REGULAR couches!!
You know what...wireless just doesnt work for me a lot of the time, although I'm typing this from a desktop with a wireless card at the other end of the house.
In my old house, some dickhead had some kind of "range extender" or a juice can antenna or something like that on his wifi setup. I could pick up his, and only his, access point. Didnt seem to matter what channel I used, where I put my AP, nada. I'd only get a signal if I put my laptop right next to the AP. More than 3" away, either I didnt see my AP at all or I saw his (but unfortunately, couldnt use it)...so his signal was bleeding all over the place. I took my laptop and wireless card (with the cisco signal meter) and found his house...across the street and down three to the right, about 800' away. Left him a note to "cut it out". He didnt. I ended up using HOMEPNA stuff, which worked great by the way.
In my new house, I have a couple of weirdo wireless devices that just dont seem to work well when I have WEP enabled, so I just left the AP open, figuring that I get signal just about to the edge of my property...hence little worry about other people using it. Just looked at my access list a few minutes ago and I had two other people on it...mac address restriction list is now in place.
Lastly, we got a free baby monitor with my last amazon order. I plugged it in, turned it on, and on both channels I get someone elses baby monitor.
The builder of my current home was a moron. It has the master bed/bath on one end of the house and the other two beds on the other side. Neither of the secondary bedrooms has anything except electricity in it. No phone, no cable, no network. Sometime this winter I'm getting up in the attic and dropping a wire bundle into each of them and some network cabling into the other rooms.
Wired all the way for me, baby!