Home Information Center

This is a system that was meant to integrate all forms of information and controls that a person needs in their life. Currently there is too much fragmentation of systems and information and this puts a lot of burden on a person and they wind up doing a lot work that the computer should be doing for them. They have become a slave to the machine instead of having the machine work for them. Further, every company that offers even a partial solution, wants you to store your information in the "cloud", which is just another way of saying that they want to own and access what should rightfully be your property and for your eyes only. These are two big and important concepts that can easily be solved with today's technology, but are not aligned with the current way that most companies want to do business. The plan is to make a system that focuses on being useful for people, not for corporations.

This is a project that wound up being a great prototype. The front end ran on a tablet in my kitchen and worked for many years. It was very popular for those that saw it, but it was hard to maintain and would not be easy for anyone else to use. Many years later, I started from scratch with these ideas and learnings and built a more generally useful application with the shortened name Home Information and with a GitHub Repository.