Linked by David Adams on Wed 21st Jan 2004 22:52 UTC
If all goes well, this summer I'll be building a new house. I've owned a few houses before, some of them built in the 1920s and 30s, and full of all the charm and quirks of an old house, and a couple that were pretty new, with the lack of craftsmanship and imagination that's typical in most new construction in the USA today. But this time I'm building a custom home, just to my specifications, so I can have whatever features I want, limited only by my imagination (and budget). I'd like to integrate some home automation features into the house, and include wiring for future expansion. 
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The only thing you can be sure of is that you can't be sure what future wiring will be like. If I were building a new house, in addition to stringing all the different kinds of cable I thought I'd need, I'd also put it in conduit so new wiring or fiber optic cable could be run without tearing things up. It's fairly cheap, I think you could do a whole house for a few hundred dollars if you did it during construction.