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Home of the Future In 10 Years? Maybe Less

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2 years ago
by David van Sunder in
DISPLAX touchscreen film

Behold the Future! Photo Courtesy of DISPLAX

Some of the products I’ve read about lately have covered technologies that are hastening my predictions for the house of tomorrow to fruition. There are two that I have found noteworthy. The first is the Toshiba Satellite E205 laptop, which I saw on an Engadget review. It’s a laptop that wirelessly sends video to a television using an included Netgear Push2TV box connected to the television’s HDMI or component inputs. That device is portable (though not yet as portable as I predicted) and will transmit video directly to another screen. It’s not quite as flexible as what I described either, but I wasn’t predicting this to be the year that the house of the future would arrive. I still have 10 years left for that prediction. (more…)

The Future Is Coming and Houses Are Smaller

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2 years ago
by David van Sunder in
Robot

Danger Will Robinson! Your House Is Too Big!

The other day, I was talking with my wife about how homes have gotten bigger and bigger over the past decade or so. That got me thinking about how our need for space in our homes is now actually shrinking. Forget about the houses in your neighborhood with the garages so full of stuff that the cars are all parked on the driveway and on the street. I’m not tackling the subject of pack rats.

What I’m thinking about is how technology is reducing the space needed to hold our belongings. Eventually, people might not feel the need for 3,500 sq ft homes, except maybe as status symbols or to house families the size of the Brady Bunch. (Which from my memory, had a smaller than 3,500 sq ft home, but I digress.)

Now some people with drawers full of gadgets would probably disagree with my assertion, but I’m making a few assumptions that will make my vision possible over time:

  1. Technology will continue to advance at a rapid pace
  2. Internet connections will become ridiculously fast and ubiquitous
  3. Society will adapt and change, taking full advantage of technology and abandoning old media paradigms
  4. Old gadgets will so quickly become dated that when they are replaced they will be recycled rather than kept for possible future use

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