Some large organisations have already started to move, one of the most notable being the US Defense Department, which has started installing Windows 10 on 4m PCs.
And Time Warner Cable is one of several broadband companies that, along with retailers, have started installing and supporting home networks in the last year or two.
In Malaysia, Visa has started installing chips in cellphones so people can swipe their phone instead of a credit card, though Mr. Attinger said that is unlikely to take off in the United States anytime soon.
In California, where a law mandating kill switches has yet to go into effect, smartphone theft is dropping because some manufacturers have already started installing the software-based switches on the devices they sell, Gascon said.
Fourth-generation LTE networks are supposed to adopt smart antennas, but most carriers haven't started installing these yet, he said.
Duffield, who has engineering and M.B.A. degrees from Cornell, started installing operating systems for IBM mainframe customers in the 1960s.
You have to start installing solar panels and windmills at a breakneck pace – and all over the world.
This column specifically focussed on how high street stores have started to install technology with the aim of better understanding customer behaviour.
Most mobile carriers are still rolling out their LTE services; only a few have started to install the latest LTE-advanced equipment (true 4G as opposed to the half-baked versions some have been marketing as the real thing).
