In the electronics industry, future-proofing references data and image storage and computer electronics. In future-proof electrical systems, buildings should have “flexible distribution systems to allow communication technologies to expand,” says Raul Barreneche (1995, 123). Thomas and other designers at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Australia, focus heavily on the ability of a system to be reused and to be flexible in order to continue competing in the marketplace (Thomas et al. 2003, 150).