This isn't a new genre of mind-melting music but the vision (in prototype) of Dutch designers/futurists showing how we might live in the next decade.
It's like Grand Designs meets Apple ihouse!
Anyway, this is one house that's right down my street! See it here.
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Reminds me a little of those late 1970s TV shows like Tomorrow’s World, where we (come ‘1990’) would have paperless offices and so on, apparently. This design is interesting, although I don’t think that there is anything particularly new here, technologically – just a composite of existing ideas already in use elsewhere. Aesthetically, I think it’s horrible: but that’s just my taste, and I’m sure you give it a different or more traditional look. Conscious of the heating bills, I think the cocoon is a neat environmental idea, but I’m not sure if it’s ‘right’ to give kids that kind of isolation to kids in a family home. Dependency on a central computer is an old idea though, and a question never really addressed is maintenance: with everything centrally controlled, what do you do when your system (running Windows 2015™) goes down, and you have to wait two weeks to get the thing fixed? Nx
Didn't we all love Tomorrow's World?! [bitch]That was when Philippa Forrester was thin![/bitch]
I agree about none of the technology being new, but I like the domestic application of forefront science.
I do wish greater strides were made to encompass environmentally-friendly concepts as well as the techno-wizardry.
I agree that the cocoon, as a child's retreat, is unhealthily isolated but I think I was viewing the design as a bachelor pad rather than a family home!
As for Windows - after visiting the new Apple store in the Cambridge Grand Arcade on Tuesday - I'm starting to wonder if my next computer step might be more 'fruitful'!
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