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Techutante t1_j21fyyv wrote

I'm thinking mega cities with hidden conveyor belts for delivery. Definitely modular, probably built like we build cruise ships right now.

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Fredanwilma t1_j21go2n wrote

Whatever we can hack out of the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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sertulariae t1_j21h22b wrote

probably an outdoors tent at this rate. Shantytowns, makeshift sheds, squatting in abandoned properties. See Brazil, that's coming to the 'first world'

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AdorableBackground83 t1_j21hze3 wrote

Here’s my hope for what the average single family home in the year 2100 would have.

  • Able to generate excessive abundance of solar energy through more applicable PVs from panels, windows and paint.

  • A garage or room sized manufacturing plant able to create almost any product at the nanoscale.

  • more advanced humanoid robots able to take care of the majority if not all of the household chores from cleaning, to making the bed, dishes, bathrooms, cooking, etc.

I think that’s a good start. If my house had these things then I have more than enough. And I hope they happen before 2100.

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niknok850 t1_j21i7p0 wrote

All I know is Spongebob said everything will be chrome in the future.

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PassengerSad9918 t1_j21ixsn wrote

Personal field that heats up when it's cold and vice versa, protects me from rain, wind and insects and that also can become opaque and allow for privacy.

Then I'd live in my forest.

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DavidinCT t1_j21klje wrote

Will not change much unless you are very wealthy.

Automation will be much better, maybe a more modern design. More secure systems.

Cooking tech will get better.. but not to the point like "I want a pizza" and 30.seconds later one shows up.

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ihbarddx t1_j21m8hl wrote

Ironing boards will emerge from the wall at the touch of a button!

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Guy_Lowbrow t1_j21o462 wrote

Tiny windowless rooms in gigantic apartments. The floor is an omnidirectional treadmill, combined with augmented reality lenses means that it can seem infinitely bigger. Modular robotic walls that can shift into furniture and other surfaces.

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Injustry t1_j21p4ae wrote

Don’t know why I keep thinking of this, but I feel the home of the future, won’t have open flames.

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paracoon t1_j21pkw3 wrote

I believe I saw a compelling documentary on this subject by the well-respected scientist Tex Avery

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mightysnicker t1_j21pqe8 wrote

flying personal vehicle garage/bay that in an apartment could be like a balcony attached to the unit

hyperbaric chambers would be common or as common as a sauna/pool would be now

Along with the 3d modular printed rooms, beds, shelving and cabinets that are built into the walls so no need for moving large furniture, everything folds out and transform

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flsingleguy t1_j21qesz wrote

You have to look at trends, and I can speak for the US. The trends are more people are single than ever before, more people are living alone than ever before. Less people are having children and I imagine cooking and hosting events is less common and will continue to be less common. So, I see lots of high density housing and apartments. People will care less about amenities that most of the residents don’t use and value will be derived from such housing close to jobs, restaurants and improved sound insulation between the units.

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MaleficentPi t1_j21qpil wrote

A lot like the ones we have now, but with more sustainable materials and a bunch of energy capture mechanisms.

Houses don't change much. The technology on the inside does.

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MarcRocket t1_j21qqvq wrote

3D printers will be very important in the home. Less Amazon boxes and more downloaded files to print… unless your poor. Then houses will be just like they are now only with more mold and rot. In my job I inspect and repair old houses. I go into 100 year old luxury homes and find rats, rotten wood, mold, flaking lead paint and poor people. It will be the same in the future.

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California-Native916 t1_j21s0u8 wrote

Can we please start making bathrooms we spray down instead of just wiping down? Where I can scrub it, than hose down... cleaner, and might want to do more often. A rag and bucket of water feels like pushing germs around, or just diluting them, but still there in smaller form

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Respawne t1_j21tesa wrote

In the future, homes will have mini data centers (server rooms) for running Ai applications, robotics & distributed cloud services such as games & synthetic media.

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lumberjack_jeff t1_j21tt8b wrote

Future robots will be mobile appliances. In-wall vacuum cleaners were a thing, but they have never become the standard for the same reason.

Decor will change - accent walls will be made of full-sized LCD screens in a curtain configurable to whatever the mood/situation calls for.

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readMyFlow t1_j21veu7 wrote

Replying to Techutante (#1,130,431)

I was thinking the same thing. One for delivering letters which is super fast based on air pressure. Apparently it's called pneumatic mails.

The other is for delivering foods.

As for bigger packages it'll be conventional systems or drones.

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tinySparkOf_Chaos t1_j21wuic wrote

HEPA filter built in and air qualify measurements in addition to your standard central air we have now. The pandemic really got a lot of people looking into how to prevent the spread of diseases and filtering the air is starting to look like the newest version of "wash your hands to stop the spread of disease"

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Honest-Poet7376 t1_j21z7mg wrote

Window blinds could be oled panels with display functionalities

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grayscalemamba t1_j21z9os wrote

I like this idea I had of every home having a grow space/greenhouse that is tended by an AI. Everyone can grow one or two crops with near-zero effort, then share and trade their excess produce with their local community. Food can once again be a way to connect with, and look out for our neighbours.

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ds2990 t1_j21zo0w wrote

Dwellings that feel more natural, as if they grew there. Or better yet dwellings made of living matter that we're actually grown. I feel the future is a synthesis of our technology back with our natural roots.

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Diligent-Kangaroo-33 t1_j2210rv wrote

I want the future to make my 2 car garage into a mini farm that meets the dietary needs for 3 people. I'm not 100% vegetarian. So need some kind of protein. I also want the electricity to be subsidize by the government. Dreams I know.

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Techutante t1_j222fff wrote

Replying to strppngynglad (#1,132,700)

It's probably going to be a 'throw everything at the wall' technology future, so drones for sure. They are mostly for light loads though, even a larger drone army would have trouble moving trainyards worth of stuff. There's only a certain density of air traffic you can have before nothing can move.

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ConnieLingus24 t1_j222wy9 wrote

-Screens will continue to be hidden/obscured ala the Frame tv.

-low key backlash to data mining devices. E.g. smart fridges.

-more building material will generate renewable energy so you don’t have to buy dedicated solar panels.

-garage space will be used for something else in certain markets since individual car ownership will become prohibitively expensive.

-(I hope) more dynamic, space efficient design both for homes through zoning ordinances and with furniture. Homes are too big and the furniture made these days is also supersized to fit them.

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WattsianLives t1_j2247li wrote

You SHOULD be thinking more of those Asian hotels/apartments that are the size of a small closet. Mega-city coffins, folks.

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TonyMitty t1_j224f2c wrote

Definitely more compact on the whole, somewhere between the cramped apartments too many of us are forced to live in, but smaller than the huge suburban ranch houses no one freaking needs, think spacious duplex. Easy clean materials for floors and counters, probably something a mega-roomba can easily navigate, something capable of moving furniture as well as sweeping cheerios, the only real automation, a modern hoover everyone can afford. Dedicated spaces for a central control computer system, nothing fancy, just enough to run the thermostat, make a grocery list and manage the wifi router, or select tonight's movie from the TV in the living room.

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Rare-Birthday4527 t1_j225h4p wrote

Free Energy AI. We fise and fuse turning oxygen into diamond and diamond to icecream. We walk through the mantle. we see across time and possibly walk through portals.

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kilofeet t1_j22a7a3 wrote

Housing can change if something becomes an everyday necessity or old necessities become useless. I'll bet people in 1982 would be shocked to learn every house has internet access that bypasses the phone lines and that landlines are a dying concept.

For the US, I think climate change will fuel adaptations. Expect sturdier structures near coasts. Energy efficiency will matter more as heating/cooling bills increase and as building supplies increase in cost. Better use of natural lighting might also be in play. Vertical gardening as both an aesthetic choice and a way to supplement household pantries. More rain barrels might increase demand for non-toxic roofing shingles (currently they make most rainwater unusable even for vegetable gardening).

Fewer homeowners associations (hopefully).

Long shot: Roomba niches. Little spaces in the wall where Roombas can go to sleep before their next adventure. Even better if it lets them pass from room to room.

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rumbletummy t1_j22cm0j wrote

Smaller living spaces. Non corporate home ownership is rare.

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HumanGomJabbar t1_j22covv wrote

Following a degradation of centralized services, the homes of tomorrow will gradually become more self-sufficient. Solar roofing, windows, and siding coupled with leaps in battery storage lead to self sufficient power. Hydroponic based farming takes root in many households.

Homes get even smarter. Automation and personal assistants become ubiquitous: anything that uses electricity can be controlled by voice. Your lawn is mowed by a robot, leaves are raked by robots, your driveway is cleared of snow and ice by a team of mini plows. Even your pillow is now driven by AI: ml algorithms learns your preference on temperature and oscillate between hot and cold.

No more wires. Electricity in every room via wireless power transfer systems.

Decentralized personal drones that pick up ordered goods and bring them back to you. Each home has a roof based hangar for the drones to enter/exit and recharge.

TVs continue to get bigger via customized panels. 400 inch 50K tvs with Dolby Blast Atmos 50.6 sound system.

Lastly, demographic shifts and dwindling employment by the younger generation have led to multi generational housing as kids never leave and live off the collective income of the family.

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king_tootinramen t1_j22i1bw wrote

In 150 years, in response to increasingly dramatic weather swings due to climate change, more houses will be built partially or fully underground to take advantage of thermal sink effects. In certain areas e.g. Vegas, Reno, where seasonal temperatures reach 150 F in the summer, people have changed their schedules and venture out mainly at night when temperatures are cooler

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zombiez8mybrain t1_j22ileq wrote

The kitchen sink will be full of dirty dishes, dirty laundry will be on the bedroom floor, the bathroom mirror will have toothpaste splashes all over it, the trash can will be overfilled, there will be dog hair in the corners of the uncarpeted floor (the carpeted parts will desperately need to be vacuumed!), and the tv will have 1k channels, but nothing interesting to watch.

Basically what we have today. But future-y.

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Nows_a_good_time t1_j22qfcd wrote

Call this a longshot if you like, but my guess is more people working remote and living in tiny homes outside of cities.

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whatdoineedaname4 t1_j22rapc wrote

My home in the future will look exactly like the one built in 1902 that I love in now

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IRMacGuyver t1_j22vcey wrote

The home of the future will look unimaginable to us humans because the machines are gonna kill all humans and take over the world.

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DorianGre t1_j22wj8q wrote

Replying to AdorableBackground83 (#1,130,752)

or just panels, windows, and paint, but every exterior piece should be solar-roof, walls, doors, windows. everything should come with dozens of contact points so and 2 points touching adds it to the home grid. Your some can self assemble the solar grid in the home, store what it doesn’t use and sell the rest to the grid, The house your cars and your phone/smart device arranges optimal time for charging thr car. Houses shouldnt need wires either, as we will develop a while home wireless da/and power standard which solves the need to wire all but the thirstiest appliances ,.

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interlopenz t1_j22xcns wrote

I'm sorry to disappointment anyone but the home of the future will be the the same houses and apartments we are living in now except they will be very run down and overcrowded to make as much money as possible for an avaricious landlord.

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steavoh t1_j22xv3k wrote

Newer, nicer suburban houses will have delivery rooms with full size doors or locker-sized doors opening into a little box or closet. This will become a common feature once it's accepted as normal and not considered "ugly" by architects and home buyers.

LED's already made light fixtures smaller and more superficial/decorative, the actual light is a thin panel that doesn't get hot. Design trends haven't adjusted to this yet but will catch up.

I think living rooms will be smaller because family sizes are smaller and everyone has portable screens and people don't have fat TV's or media on shelves or things like that anymore. Tastes will catch up and they'll shrink over time. Likewise with more people spending time online there is less need for storage of random stuff. Also generational trends away from collecting and accumulating shit. So smaller closets.

Kitchens might grow or might shrink. With more disposable income people like to pretend they like to cook at home even though they don't hence all the upscale fixtures that trickle down into middle class wants. But actually if food costs shoot up due to resource scarcity and food becomes less good tasting because of government regulations on sugar or bans on meat because of the effect on the environment then why bother.

I think 1 or 2 bedroom detached houses with a one-car or no garage will become normal again in countries like the US. At one time many suburban homes were built like this in working class areas, but by the 1970s it was unthinkable to buy a house with less than 3 bedrooms and a two car garage. But if many more people are single or couples with no kids, then why do you need more than one or two bedrooms? With the cost of housing going up forever and becoming less affordable, I see these being an option. For middle class people who will never own a home in the future, there are these purpose built corporate owned for rent only small houses going up in my city already. Perhaps they will be available to buy in the future if you are higher income.

I think home sizes will diverge. There will be few medium sized homes built. All new dwellings will either be 1 or 2 bedroom rental apartments or cottages, and then a tiny minority will be massive homes with several bedrooms.

In large expensive cities, large houses >3 to 4k square feet are going to replace smaller older rental properties. In Chicago, Boston, they are gutting the inside of old 4 plexes and walkup apartments to be single residences. In Houston they tear down a 800 square foot wood frame house and put up a 3 floor townhouse that looks very urbane but is a kind of small mansion. Usually despite the size the household sizes in these areas is low, like 2 professionals will live in that big dwelling. Therefore population density will decrease while household sizes increase. Cities will have smaller but more affluent populations.

Meanwhile smaller, somewhat denser housing for the former middle and new working class will be mostly built in "exurban" areas of states like Texas or Florida that are fast growing. There won't be mass transit, or bike trails, or even park spaces, or any kind of neighborhood feeling or anything utopian of that sort. Just apartment complexes and for rent cottages next to freeways. This is because the top down development process by which capital from things like REIT's find its way into construction favors high-income high-amenity private master planned communities first, and these always grow in the furthest flung greenfield areas. Special utility and service districts have replaced municipalities and local government involvement in building infrastructure or providing services. Therefore all subsequent development of more affordable housing or light commercial happens in a haphazard fill-in-the-cracks manner alongside major roadways that have power lines or sewer lines to them already and there is no will or interest by a developer to sacrifice profit or viability of their project to make these places walkable or add true public spaces to them. Automated driving will likely make it possible to privatize roads (because you can charge a fee and deny access to a car that doesn't without a gate or booth) to the point where rights of way are only easements. And if these are privatized then pedestrians or bikes or vehicles that don't have an invitation or agreement would be barred as well. Long story short, the future won't be that urban. Also leaving home and mobility will be somewhat of a luxury for the working and middle class as prices of everything goes up.

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Mash_man710 t1_j234l6h wrote

A hundred years is a very long time..

  1. In house printable food and goods.
  2. No wiring, cords or power outlets. Everything interconnected, free-charging and wireless.
  3. No grid connections. Power, water everything self-contained.
  4. No garages. All transportation will be air based and on demand.
  5. All windows will be dimmable and add to power supply.
  6. All surfaces will be self cleaning and nanobots will clean and sterilise everything constantly.
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Bkeeneme t1_j237wc1 wrote

I really think homes will become more mobile. You'll move it to anywhere to want to live but will be much more complete than today's RVs. You will have all electricity and plumbing you need with recharging areas and waste disposal. Plus, you will be able to detach parts of it to move about and explore different areas, including the oceans, and then return it to a complete housing unit.

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igeekone t1_j23c3ew wrote

I'm thinking walls that are entirely screens. You can change the look of a room on demand.

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Ascendria t1_j23dtx7 wrote

I feel like with apartments getting smaller and the population growing, people might start migrating away from a lot of the things that people think of as homes today.

They'll probably get a lot smaller. Homes could over time be almost completely replaced by single space studios that function more or less as a room inside of a much larger building, kind of like living in a hotel. I could see converted hotels turning into mass studio apartment complexes over the next decade or so.

I don't really use a lot of kitchen appliances, so things like a massive oven and stove take up a lot of unnecessary space. A lot of the components that make up conventional housing can sometimes go pretty unused, like a yard or having a large room dedicated just for sleeping.

Conventional homes, especially in America, are huge. I can easily see that trend dying as the economy, social structure, and technological daily life change quickly for people all over the place.

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Heap_Good_Firewater t1_j23fvwz wrote

The 3d printing thing is already in use in a very limited way. The one I saw used concrete, layered gradually (even for internal walls).

This should remove the necessity for straight walls to save construction costs. In the hands of creative architects, we could see a major residential design revolution.

https://youtu.be/vL2KoMNzGTo

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1stshadowx t1_j23ntg3 wrote

I thinking 3d printed made out of wood, everything made out of 3d printed wood. It would fix alot of problems towards the climate. People living for long periods of time from anti aging pills. No health problems medicine cant fix. I’ll eventually we evolve again back towards bestial in nature, still with more developed brains, but we already are evolving back to hunchback do to technology.

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claytonjaym t1_j23w7cj wrote

Replying to MaleficentPi (#1,132,289)

Hopefully more repairable appliances and more reusable, recyclable or at LEAST biodegradable parts/building materials too. Filling a dump truck with roof shingles every 10 years for each house that gets reroofed is fucked (as an example)

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baddada1 t1_j23wz37 wrote

Shabby chic will still be popular albeit with different materiels.

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gregtx t1_j23zpqm wrote

The coffin home concept gets exported from China to the rest of the world for the poorest in our communities. This becomes a common use for repurposed office space that no longer needed as work-from-home technology is far superior at that point. The richest see loads of personal automation and AI assistance in their daily lives. Most single family homes have solar or wind generation capability. Suburban sprawl expands much farther out as well. Water is the most precious resource by then, so most households have personal water treatment and recycling.

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DeejayPleazure t1_j242dgk wrote

3D modular homes would be great except you would need to expect to not have wifi in more than one room.

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iZafiro t1_j247apr wrote

I just want multipurpose robots to take care of chores, I hope these will have been available for 70 years already by 2100.

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Fast_Paper_6097 t1_j248rl3 wrote

Think about what materials would be the cheapest while providing builders the highest markup potential, and there’s part of the answer. Though I think the trend is becoming smaller for single family homes, and I sense a trend of multi-generational dwellings making a comeback with how hard it is for Gen Z to break into the home buying market.

Now, for a futuristic look, ChatGPT paired with some of the first personal qbit computers leads to an interesting augmented existence. Auto-reorder of food essentials and staples? In home AI diagnosis to replace Urgent Care visits and reduce healthcare workforce payroll? AI driven news reports and daily updates who needs humans to scare other humans when AI can do it for free!

I think of the dwellings in Ready Player 1 when I imagine the trajectory of our current path.

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davidm2232 t1_j24ac3x wrote

Replying to California-Native916 (#1,132,510)

I don't see why bathrooms aren't already designed like that. Most materials in them are already waterproof. Just add a drain in the center of the floor and a hot water hose sprayer to wash everything down. I'm setting up my bathroom like that when I redo it

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davidm2232 t1_j24alqi wrote

Replying to DavidinCT (#1,131,188)

>but not to the point like "I want a pizza" and 30.seconds later one shows up

If you ate a lot of frozen pizzas, it wouldn't be that hard to make a freezer that dispensed the pizza into a pizza oven and cooked it in just a few minutes. Could load it up with like 10 and just push a button and a hot pizza pops out in a few minutes.

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nonamegamer93 t1_j24aswj wrote

I like the 3D printed houses, some companies are already working on factory build housing modules for 50K a piece I believe giving you a 20X20 sq ft module. Those can be different themes of kitchen, living, stairs, bedroom etc.. and get away from trailers or mobile homes a bit. I like the concept at least which would theoretically allow you to buy another module for your house down the line if your financial situation improves.

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Miserly_Bastard t1_j24cnm6 wrote

Historically, wealth and technology cause people to consume more square footage even as household size is reduced.

I am concerned that this same trend will play out and also that wealth concentration and lower rates of population growth (or decline) will lead to much less new construction and that where there is new construction will either be in a boomtown setting or relegated to wealthy people building large homes.

The rest of us will probably just have to make use of and manage the decline of the existing housing stock as it is and where it is.

The average age of housing in the United States will likely always be in the 20th century.

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mealucra t1_j24e4jw wrote

Large, well insulated (soundproofed), well-designed (layout, facing) appartement blocks that look onto a park/nature reserve and have amenities like grocery, entertainment, nightlife, hardware and general stores built around them. Cars would be segregated to an arrival/departure area and a train line would connect to a major city.

That's my dream, anyway...

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Pathos14489 t1_j24ei1m wrote

A tent on the side of the road for a few days before the dystopic police remove it. That's presuming you're lucky enough to find a tent in the first place.

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CoolioDaggett t1_j24h1zm wrote

I just attended a conference on the future of homebuilding. You're going to see much higher energy efficiency requirements, air quality regulations, and green energy. Other countries are already ahead of us on most of this stuff. Insulation requirements is probably the first major change that will happen. Canada already has much higher R-value requirements than the US, and I assume we'll follow suit in the next 12 years, or so. With that high R-value comes the need to protect against mold and fungus, so indoor air quality regulations will have to drastically change. US appliance regulations are also outdated and need to catch up to the rest of the world. You're starting to see that now with the heat pump credits in the Inflation Reduction Act.

I'm a robotics and automation instructor, and I don't think you're going to see any type of robotic ovens or anything like that, but we will definitely see more automation on the energy efficiency side of things. Things like occupancy sensors for lighting and HVAC, more scheduling of energy consumption, sensors on appliances to optimize their use, things like that. Automation of tasks like cooking are tough, but automation of the simplest things, like turning off a lighswitch, or closing the blinds at night, are easy and I think we'll see more of those tasks automated

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Doc-in-a-box t1_j24heq6 wrote

The robot arms on rails is something that I’ve been thinking about as a physician for many years. When my patients get old, they still fall when walking to the bathroom, and it’s hard to navigate most walkers and wheelchairs through the house. Strap up to the robot arm and go where you need to go!

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r2k-in-the-vortex t1_j24ijce wrote

Here's a easy prediction to make - floorspace per capita keeps going up in the future, so the homes will be just plain bigger.

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laurac141 t1_j24o1ij wrote

Self cleaning house. I think we’re going to design it thinking about the most efficient way to clean, with embedded sprayers and hidden robots to scrub and wipe down surfaces. We should probably start with self cleaning windows

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boomdart t1_j24o6z8 wrote

The rich will have massive houses The poor will have small houses

Newer knick knacks I suppose

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gropethegoat OP t1_j256mhd wrote

Replying to Doc-in-a-box (#1,149,315)

Oh I never thought of them as tools for elderly/disabled. I was selfishly just thinking about not wanting to clean the litter box.

One thing I was wondering is how to reduce risk of potential damage / injury from the arms when they error. For them to be of much use they would have to be pretty powerful, and could cause a lot of harm.

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