{"id":3677,"date":"2021-11-14T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T07:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/14\/houses-of-tomorrow-a-more-hopeful-vision-of-domesticity-or-a-dystopian-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2021-11-14T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T07:42:22","slug":"houses-of-tomorrow-a-more-hopeful-vision-of-domesticity-or-a-dystopian-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/14\/houses-of-tomorrow-a-more-hopeful-vision-of-domesticity-or-a-dystopian-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Houses of tomorrow: A more hopeful vision of domesticity, or a dystopian nightmare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the future, will we find a better way to live, or will our homes be taken over by surveillance and despotic appliances?<\/p>\n

Imagine, if you can, a small, bluish room. Wires, screens, sensors. A few keepsakes from the old world. The room\u2019s fleshy inhabitant, confined indoors by a zoonotic pandemic, greenwashes a data-mining company from her bed. The government has made it illegal for her to step outside.<\/p>\n

There is a communal kitchen down the corridor, which she shares with a few strangers she met online, but mostly she orders her meals via an interface and eats them here. Microphones record her interactions. A motion sensor on her wrist reminds her to optimise her performance. Filled with saudade for the dying world outside, she has bought a few rainforest plants to brighten the space. Her pocket surveillance device reminds her to water them. She catches the news: the world\u2019s richest man has just left the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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\nIn the future, will we find a better way to live, or will our homes be taken over by surveillance and despotic appliances?
\nImagine, if you can, a small, bluish room. Wires, screens, sensors. A few keepsakes from the old world. The room\u2019s fleshy inhabitant, confined indoors by a zoonotic pandemic, greenwashes a data-mining company from her bed. The government has made it illegal for her to step outside.
\nThere is a communal kitchen down the corridor, which she shares with a few strangers she met online, but mostly she orders her meals via an interface and eats them here. Microphones record her interactions. A motion sensor on her wrist reminds her to optimise her performance. Filled with saudade for the dying world outside, she has bought a few rainforest plants to brighten the space. Her pocket surveillance device reminds her to water them. She catches the news: the world\u2019s richest man has just left the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the future, will we find a better way to live, or will our homes be taken over by surveillance and despotic appliances? Imagine, if you can, a small, bluish room. Wires, screens, sensors. A few keepsakes from the old world. The room\u2019s fleshy inhabitant, confined indoors by a zoonotic pandemic, greenwashes a data-mining company …<\/p>\n

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