Expert


predictions for


high-tech homes of the future


WRITTEN BY LISA SALMON


As a report suggests homes will be super high-tech within 20 years, experts predict changes, including home-help drones and mood-changing exteriors. Houses that have learned what heating and lighting you need, with exteriors that can be changed to suit your mood, and interiors boasting home-help drones, basement greenhouses and pet-sitting robots, will be an option within 20 years. Tat’s the prediction of a new report compiled by a group of home and tech experts, who believe there will be major changes to our living spaces over the next two decades, because home and work areas have been forced to merge during the pandemic. “Our work and home lives will blur, but not in a bad way – more in a way that gives us control,” says architect Piers Taylor, presenter of Te House Tat 100k Built and Te World’s Most Extraordinary Homes. “We’ll be more autonomous than ever, choosing how and where we want to work, and how and where we want to play. “We’ll need to create different virtual and physical environments for ourselves – we may need to have a meeting at the drop of a hat when we’re in the garden with our kids, and step instantly into a virtual environment.


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