Imagine the single family home in 100 years...

[Chango]

Originally Posted by daydreamin71

This technology is already in the works. Corning Inc calls it "Willow Glass" and it's intent is to allow for wrapping displays along curved or non-flat surfaces, etc.

Yea... just about everything I described in my imaginary home tour was based on real technology in the works right now.

[daydreamin71]

Very cool! I liked your vision for cars. Makes sense.

[stevo6]

I think there will be two distinct tracks for the future. One will serve the masses, in particular developing nations, and that is, the factory built box (or boxes) which by then will have shed the current trappings of historical references and come preloaded with all the technology imagined in the previous posts. These will be built in dense urban settings, both highrise and low rise. The second track will be a backlash to the first: a return to handmade traditional houses of high qualitity, built in more natural settings, with very little technology, and a greater relationship to the land. These will be for the "1 percenters" or maybe by then it will be the "10 percenters", globally speaking.
This is all just my offhand thought- not based at all on any data. I think it suggests the possibility of a reversal of what we have today, where the middle and lower middle classes are more interconnected by technology and the upper echelon is increasingly isolalated.

[K'ledgeBldr]

Originally Posted by LIGuy1202

I would like to think, in the next 100yrs., an anti-technology backlash will cause residential architecture to facilitate inter-personal relationships, self-improvement, and increased pride and participation in the design and upkeep of one's own home.