Bandwidth Explodes High-speed lines are now being used by one-third of U.S. households, with higher percentages in parts of Asia. Some 14 million broadband users run wireless networks at home. This is the vital plumbing for delivering music and video there.

Flat-Screen TVs are Everywhere Massive investments in Asia should drive down prices of flat computerized TVs by 50% within two years. These will become the essential furniture of the networked home. And users will want ever more bandwidth to fill the high-definition screens.

Don’t Buy, Subscribe New offerings such as Rhapsody’s music service, Comcast’s Video on Demand, and Disney’s MovieBeam deliver music and movies via the Web. Content collections sit on the network, and subscribers click for music and programming.

SMART Phones Proliferate Cell phones should be in the hands of nearly 2 billion people by 2007, up from 1.3 billion today. The coming gizmos will connect to the Web for e-mail, music, and video clips from anywhere, anytime.