Future talk beyond the zigbee which is a form of technology, here are some predictions and scenarios of how technologies will play out in the world of work. Still pushing the "lone wolf" model of work? Forget it. Social collaboration mediated by devices is the direction we are headed. On the tech radar | Tech News on ZDNet: "Gartner's prediction that by 2010, 70 percent of the population in developed nations will spend 10 times longer per day interacting with people in the digital world than in the physical one is not surprising. Coincident with that trend, collaboration tools for enabling electronic interaction -- ranging from Wikis to sites that can identify and provide specific expertise to a group -- will take on more prominence"