One of the most interesting claims in Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital (1996) was that bandwidth would be the same into and out of the home, and that home servers would be ubiquitous. I think his key example was the idea of live video exchange between grandparents and grandchildren.

Another Negropontean idea was that bits are bits. The notion of somehow partitioning server-like entities on the basis of their behavior doesn't fit, he argued, the architecture of the Internet.