Dear Paddy,
Waiting 30 years for smart homes and still counting
Back in 1980 when I still lived in the Netherlands I worked with the
Dutch futurist Griet Titulaer (an astronomer by trade) in building ‘The
Home of the Future’. I would say that at that stage it was more built
around innovative interior design with automation features. Home
entertainment also played a key role in it.
At that stage these concepts had nowhere near the amount of technology
that we are seeing in the homes of the future that we envisage today,
but in essence lots of the elements ...
