{"id":32365,"date":"2013-02-01T08:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/homes-of-future-past.html"},"modified":"2013-02-01T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T15:04:18","slug":"homes-of-future-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/homes-of-future-past.html","title":{"rendered":"Homes of Future Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember &quot;The 21st Century&quot; &#8212; though I was young to appreciate it fully at the time. \u00a0Here Walter Cronkite describes the &quot;Home of the Future&quot; as seen in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>The gaps visible are key in writing any sort of near-term (or sometimes far-term) SF. \u00a0The idea of wireless communication, as well as advances in miniaturization, means that that the Living Room of the Future (complete with Conversation Pit!) is controlled by a massive <i>Star Trek<\/i> -like console, rather than integrated remotes.<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen segment shows another blind spot &#8212; how people actually live, vs. the ideals of technology. \u00a0Not only does the automated Meal of the Future assume that everyone enjoys microwaved frozen food, but the dish-and-disposal scheme assumes zero left-overs. Is the extra food just wasted? Is each portion &quot;computer controlled&quot; for the individual&#39;s diet? Both have interesting implications. And, again, it&#39;s the small bits of the technology that feel most antiquated &#8212; ordering up your automatic meal via keyboard &quot;or some time of punched computer card.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Lessons learned: (1) Consider the behavioral changes of the technology you show (are they realistic, and, if so, what does that say about the rest of the world). (2) The underlying technology is less likely to be dated if treated as a black box (which is how most people understand technology); what will really look dated, regardless, is the interface.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/cronkite.png?w%3D300%26h%3D229&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/01\/30\/how-far-off-were-the-predictions-of-1967s-home-of-the-future\/'>How Far Off Were The Predictions Of 1967\u2032s Home Of The Future? \u2013 The Consumerist<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFaced with an amazing array of new technology, post-World War II America was obsessed with \u201cthe future\u201d and how, within decades, we&#8217;d be living in geodesic colonies in the desert with self-sustaining &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/BJXwr4PiG6D' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember &quot;The 21st Century&quot; &#8212; though I was young to appreciate it fully at the time. \u00a0Here Walter Cronkite describes the &quot;Home of the Future&quot; as seen in 1967. The gaps visible are key in writing any sort of near-term (or sometimes far-term) SF. \u00a0The idea of wireless communication, as well as advances in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/homes-of-future-past.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homes of Future Past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30471,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/04\/the-unspeakable-future-horrors-if-obama-is-elected.html","url_meta":{"origin":32365,"position":0},"title":"The Unspeakable Future Horrors if Obama is elected!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Oct-12 6:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"As described by Focus in the Family ... in 2008, as a retrospective letter from \"A Christian of 2012.\"Remarkably enough, the\u00a0Apocalypse\u00a0hasn't come, but the very same rhetoric is being used this election, too, just with the dates scrubbed and updated. \u00a0And I have no doubt we'll see the same in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128499,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/the-future-face-of-america.html","url_meta":{"origin":32365,"position":1},"title":"The Future Face of America","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Nov-15 10:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a year-plus old, but worth a look. 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