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  Martin Pot

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  domotica?

  Recently we have had a Trade-Fair in the Netherlands about Domotica: you know, the refrigerator telling you to buy fresh milk and the lights switching on the moment you enter your house. (slightly summarized of course; I hear the early adaptors frowning)
  Many of these possibilities are technical in the first place: they exist because it is possible and not because somebody has made it clear that there is also a need for it.
  That does not mean I am absolutely against any form of domestic technical progress in this: on the contrary. What I ask myself (and others in an article coming up written with a tech.) is what the influence is - or should be - on our living environment.
  Nowadays we have our flatscreen-tv , our computer and many other household-gadgets/interfaces etc. ; but they do not (yet) interact, they are no part of our surroundings other than there physical presence.
  We tend to reject many of these possibilities, I believe mainly because we have no emotion with it. (or a great deal) We fear or believe that it has an influence on our life which, in these matters, we do not want.
  And we do not want this because we cannot foresee the impact; we ´withdraw´ in the classical sense in our house because that is what we believe it is there for: protection, a roof over your head: home.
  But how does this interfere with a world that is becoming more digitalised, more closely to you, more influential and therefore part of your house.
  There was a project in the Netherlands where an architect and an artist created a city-sculpture that changed colors with the moods of the inhabitants. (http://www.d-toren.nl/site/)
  Think of that in your bedroom…….
  I would like to hear anybody´s comment on this subject which is becoming more and more a serious issue.
  
  • 30 Jan 2008, 4:19 pm
  Martin Pot wrote: > Recently we have had a Trade-Fair in the Netherlands about Domotica: > you know, the refrigerator telling you to buy fresh milk and the > lights switching on the moment you enter your house. (slightly > summarized of course; I hear the early adaptors frowning) > Many of these possibilities are technical in the first place: they > exist because it is possible and not because somebody has made it > clear that there is also a need for it. > That does not mean I am absolutely against any form of domestic > technical progress in this: on the contrary. What I ask myself (and > others in an article coming up written with a tech.) is what the > influence is - or should be - on our living environment. > Nowadays we have our flatscreen-tv , our computer and many other > household-gadgets/interfaces etc. ; but they do not (yet) interact, > they are no part of our surroundings other than there physical > presence. > We tend to reject many of these possibilities, I believe mainly > because we have no emotion with it. (or a great deal) We fear or > believe that it has an influence on our life which, in these matters, > we do not want. > And we do not want this because we cannot foresee the impact; we > ´withdraw´ in the classical sense in our house because that is what > we believe it is there for: protection, a roof over your head: home. > But how does this interfere with a world that is becoming more > digitalised, more closely to you, more influential and therefore part > of your house. > There was a project in the Netherlands where an architect and an > artist created a city-sculpture that changed colors with the moods of > the inhabitants. (http://www.d-toren.nl/site/) > Think of that in your bedroom……. > I would like to hear anybody´s comment on this subject which is > becoming more and more a serious issue.
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