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The daily post The future is here today? The 1956 Ideal Home Exhibition opened yesterday in London. Perhaps the most interesting display is The House of the Future – a vision of life at the end of the twentieth century.
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The daily post
The future is here today?
The 1956 Ideal Home Exhibition opened yesterday in London. Perhaps the most interesting display is The House of the Future – a vision of life at the end of the twentieth century. All the walls inside and outside the house are plastic. There is an exotic garden inside the house. The public also have a chance to see some gadgets from the future. There is a remote control for the lights and the enormous television set (it has a twelve-inch screen!) There is a gadget which cleans the bath every time you use it. A special button hides the tables in the floor when you are not using them. Many people are already asking how they can buy a house of the future. Unfortunately, there are no plans to build them!
The Lowestoft Advertiser
May, 2005
The Intelligent House
This is the ‘intelligent’ house where technology controls nearly everything and makes everyday life much easier. From the outside it looks like an average detached house — the furniture, TV and fridge are the same as in any other home. But this house is full of surprises.
The intelligent house has many innovations. A computer controls the heating and the lighting. If you’re at work and the computer decides the house isn’t warm enough, it switches on the heating. It can prepare coffee for you as you’re watching your favourite TV programme. Cameras, which are in every bedroom, keep an eye on the children upstairs when you are in the garden or even at the office. The house even knows what is in your fridge and can make a shopping list for you.
The computer works outside the house, too. When you come home from the supermarket, a camera above the door ‘sees’ your heavy bags of shopping and opens the door for you. You can see anybody that comes to your door without leaving your armchair. The cameras are linked to the Internet so you can even check what is going on outside your house when you’re at work or on holiday — just check the house’s special web page. The computer can even automatically water the garden when it’s too dry.
A vision of the future? No — companies are building houses like this at the moment. And who are these houses for? The companies believe these houses are ideal for busy people whose jobs require a lot of travel. But there is one small problem — a house like this costs over 700,000!