Here we discover ourselves within the 21st century and vehicles are driving by themselves, fridges are ordering meals robotically on the interweb, and most stunning of all, Millennials have develop into the biggest patrons of latest houses! You might have fooled me. (See the Millennial Song hyperlink beneath).
And, as we transfer inexorably into the long run, know-how is progressing quicker than ever earlier than within the historical past of mankind. An ideal instance of that is Virtual Reality. It has made large advances in simply how actual the digital phrase that’s created methods us into considering it’s the precise world. (Read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, written all the best way again in 1992, for a glimpse of the long run). My nephew works for Microsoft within the digital actuality division and he let me check out the most recent {hardware}/software program. In one program I felt I used to be on the high of Mount Everest and one other on the backside of the ocean, choosing up clams. I actually thought I used to be there!
So how does this immediately influence our future, or extra particularly, mine? The days of the fashionable kitchen are drawing to an in depth. Ever since Eve, with Adams assist, tousled within the backyard, they needed to begin getting ready meals for his or her household by themselves. Hence the necessity for a functioning kitchen. But image Adam or Eve placing on their VR (Virtual Reality) headsets and dialing into any restaurant that they had a craving for. Open the digital menu, inform the avatar (faux [virtual] individual) waiter what they want, and pay with a Bitcoin!
A couple of minutes later a driverless automotive would pull as much as their house with their digital dinner (most likely just a few mush) and a robotic would ring the doorbell. They will surely assume it was by far the most effective meal they ever had. Virtual Reality 1; Kitchen 0.
Fortunately, it isn’t as bleak because it sounds. Although we’re all ageing in place as you learn this, we’re not fairly there but (though I’m utilizing Word 2003 on a Virtual Windows XP program, residing someplace inside my Windows 10 pc). Fortunately we nonetheless want kitchens and we’ll at all times want loos (I feel). Our finest wager is to attempt to slowly adapt to the brand new know-how. Talk to Siri and Alexa that are good methods to start and you may nonetheless be capable of sit in your kitchen to eat, do homework, have espresso and browse the newspaper (whereas they nonetheless exist).
I determine kitchens as we all know them will probably be round for at the least one other twenty or thirty years, so in case you are enthusiastic about reworking do not wait till they’re out of date. Remodel now so you possibly can get pleasure from it for a few years to return. And, if you wish to get a leap on issues, fall is the most effective time to start out planing and getting initiatives transferring.
Hurricanes, nuclear threats and world warming might come and go, however for now nothing makes you are feeling higher than a brand new or reworked kitchen or lavatory. Even if you need to pay the deposit in Bitcoins!
(Millennial Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZthGh758pYY )
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