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In 2017, the first home delivery of goods ordered from an online store was made using a drone. And in 2040, absolutely all delivery of purchases in will be carried out only in this way - myriads of drones will scurry over cities and their environs. And this is not the only technological change that awaits us!

Houses in the future will acquire artificial intelligence, similar to those that we see in science fiction films aboard spacecraft with a team sleeping in suspended animation - a kind of computer Mother Mistress, who monitors the order in the house and all its indicators, from air temperature and humidity to energy consumption and premises security. And the real owners of the house will be able to observe all the information on numerous displays designed to constantly display weather forecasts.

"Smart" wardrobes, connected to the central computer system, relying on data about their contents and the current weather forecast, transmit proposals to the owners to wear certain clothes according to the weather to electronic mirrors. And the mirrors themselves will allow people not to bother with a real fitting and virtually "dress" their reflection in certain wardrobe items.

The homes of the future will be equipped with laundry rooms where clothes can be washed without water and where even ironing will be automated as much as possible.

Perhaps today all this sounds like fiction, but these inventions are already at different stages of development and sooner or later will become integral parts of housing in the not too distant future, a specialist from Property Buyer Expo is sure Kylie Mayer.

Kylie is part of a team of designers and architects from Australia who created an interactive installation called "House of the Future", which aims to show, based on the ideas of contemporaries, what houses will be like in the future - in 2040 and beyond.

"We are in Sydney, but among us are Australian, and French, and Russian, and Italian specialists who studied the work of futurologists, economists and other experts in various fields of science and technology in order to understand how this or that technology will develop over time or an idea," says Kylie.

According to her, the very first thing that the houses of the future will receive is a centralized computer control system a la Smart Home, but significantly improved - it will be able not only to manage the house, but also to unite all the electronic devices and gadgets of the owners into a single home network.

Some of the ideas embodied in the homes of the future may turn out to be completely revolutionary - primarily related to health. So, toilets will be able to carry out simple medical tests that can detect the first signs of health problems - for example, measure the level of sugar or liquid in the body.

The computer will take care of the occupants even when they sleep - the beds will maximize the sleep cycle by monitoring the breathing and heart rate of the sleepers. And they will even be able to provide first aid to some people who have sleep problems - for example, who suffer from sleep apnea (holding their breath in sleep): for this, however, you will need to sleep in a special bracelet.

"Many of these technologies will be introduced to the public in the next 5-15 years," says Kylie Mayer. “Their development is constrained by the lack of infrastructure for support, but it is only a matter of time and what surprises us today may turn out to be commonplace tomorrow!”

Based on news.com.au, used photos of Property Buyer Expo (5)

Appearance of the house There are many ideas for the house of the future, which many architects and designers around the world are trying to implement not only on paper, but also in practice. Some of the most daring projects include underground, floating or telescopic houses, Lego houses, transparent houses and tree houses. Among the most common trends is a house of the future with a streamlined shape, without sharp corners, as naturally as possible inscribed in the surrounding landscape. There are many ideas for the house of the future, which many architects and designers around the world are trying to implement not only on paper, but also in practice. Some of the most daring projects include underground, floating or telescopic houses, Lego houses, transparent houses and tree houses. Among the most common trends is a house of the future with a streamlined shape, without sharp corners, as naturally as possible inscribed in the surrounding landscape.

Materials, features of architecture and interior House 1 The house of the future by AR Technic consists of smooth lines and shapes, both outside and inside the building. The streamlined shapes of the walls, ceiling, interior ceilings, door and window openings smoothly flow into each other, uniting the interior space into a harmonious interior. The house of the future is organically inscribed in the forest design, it seems that its lines deliberately go around bushes and trees. The house of the future of AR Technic is all made up of smooth lines and shapes, both outside and inside the building. The streamlined shapes of the walls, ceiling, interior ceilings, door and window openings smoothly flow into each other, uniting the interior space into a harmonious interior. The house of the future is organically inscribed in the forest design, it seems that its lines deliberately go around bushes and trees.

The house is very cozy. The modern interior, despite the restrained decor of the house, is equipped with everything necessary for a comfortable stay. The house of the future looks great at night, too, when modern LCD luminaires highlight the elegant forms of its architecture. The house is very cozy. The modern interior, despite the restrained decor of the house, is equipped with everything necessary for a comfortable stay. The house of the future looks great at night, too, when modern LCD luminaires highlight the elegant forms of its architecture.

House 2 The house of the future by Senosiain Arquitectos is shaped like a shell. The design of the house in the photo below, as you can see, features amazingly colorful decor, both in the exterior and in the interior of the building. The whole complex of architectural solutions for the house of the future is subordinated to the general idea of ​​turning the sink into a comfortable home. The complex organization of the internal space at first even causes confusion. The house of the future by Senosiain Arquitectos is shaped like a shell. The design of the house in the photo below, as you can see, features amazingly colorful decor, both in the exterior and in the interior of the building. The whole complex of architectural solutions for the house of the future is subordinated to the general idea of ​​turning the sink into a comfortable home. The complex organization of the internal space at first even causes confusion.

The décor elements of this home of the future are bright and festive, from the multi-colored glass wall to the green lawns in the interior. So far, the project of this house exists only on paper, and it would be a pity if it does not materialize in real life. The construction of the house should be carried out from durable reinforced concrete, which can protect this unusual house of the future from seismic hazards. The décor elements of this home of the future are bright and festive, from the multi-colored glass wall to the green lawns in the interior. So far, the project of this house exists only on paper, and it would be a pity if it does not materialize in real life. The construction of the house should be carried out from durable reinforced concrete, which can protect this unusual house of the future from seismic hazards.

House 3 The house of the future by J.Mayer H.Architects impresses with how organically it fits into a complex hilly landscape. It seems that the architects only cared about one problem: not to harm the natural landscape. The height of the ceilings, the dimensions of the rooms and the location of the entrance and interior doors and window openings ideally match the surrounding space. At the same time, the house was created as functional, reliable and comfortable as possible.

The house of the future is the ideal of a harmoniously developed society The main advantage of the "house of the future" over ordinary houses is unconditional comfort. Comfortable is when it is warm in winter and cool in summer, it is light at any time of the year and it is easy to breathe at any time of the day. A comfortable home is an energy-efficient home designed to conserve all consumed resources, including not disturbing the balance between man and nature. The sustainable materials used for construction and insulation contribute to this.

Around the time that NASA first started thinking about how to put a man on the moon, we began to think about how to colonize our own planet. As you know, conditions even on Earth in the depths of the ocean are sometimes those of an exotic environment on a potentially habitable planet. Thus, having found out whether it is convenient to live, for example, at the bottom of the sea, we would be better prepared for.

The US government is involved in the development of underwater stations. The US Navy first created SEALAB, an experimental underwater dwelling, in 1964 and submerged it to a depth of 58 meters. It was followed by SEALAB II and III. And in the late 60s, the Tektite research underwater station was built (development funded by NASA and the State Department).

There were also completely commercial private projects. The well-known explorer of the deep sea, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, built the Conshelf underwater house in the mid-60s, the maximum diving depth of which was 102 meters. But do not feed innovators with bread - they want to make an underwater permanent residence. At the 1964 New York World's Fair, General Motors unveiled an entire underwater hotel called the Futurama II. Unless Dr. Zoidberg is not a supply manager.

And now the most interesting. In 1971, a group of British investors created a project plan, according to which they were to build an entire underwater city ... in the Black Sea. Welcome to Pilkington Sea City.

Some research centers operate completely underwater, there are underwater hotels, but there are no cities. Why? One major concern is decompression sickness, a potentially deadly condition due to the fact that water puts twice as much pressure on our body as air does. Maintaining the right atmosphere, as well as logistics, including supplies, is difficult and expensive. Maybe that's why a night at the Jules' Undersea Lodge in Florida costs $500.

Home nuclear reactor

If you've been to 1957-1967 Disneyland (which is unlikely), you must have seen Monsanto's House of the Future. There were many amazing things inside, some of which are impossible to imagine even today, let alone see. As you explored this "home of the future", a voice followed you explaining how this or that thing works. Toward the end of the tour, the voice said the following:

"To keep energy costs down, all of the house's electricity and central heating is powered by a small nuclear reactor, shielded with plastic for safety."

What, sorry? Small nuclear reactor? After the Chernobyl accident in 1986, there were 50 more incidents around the world (not to mention nuclear ships and submarines). Since then, the "peaceful atom" has ceased to be harmless and friendly. Nobody wants to live next to a nuclear power plant, let alone hide it in the basement of their house. But then the "House of the Future" was the first commercial project of a domestic nuclear power plant. Then there was the atomic age, and everyone dreamed of the transport of the future, equipped with miniature nuclear power plants, and thought that nuclear power would send the antediluvian coal industry into retirement. But it turned out that the path to inexhaustible energy is much more thorny, and plastic is not enough to protect against a nuclear explosion. Completely autonomous houses exist, but it is impossible to say that they are in the order of things.

Nevertheless, NASA is working on the creation of a safe home nuclear fusion reactor.

biosphere

In 1996, a film called "Bio-House" was released with Stephen Baldwin and Pauly Shore in the lead roles. They played characters who were looking for a mall and found themselves inside a bio-house. The bio-house - or biosphere - is a closed ecological system created by people. This means that all waste produced by organisms must be consumed by other organisms within the biosphere. The biosphere was created as part of an experiment simulating a closed system for survival in space. On a space station, for example, everything the astronauts and cosmonauts need is transported with them or later. But if we carry food to the Martian colony, it will be expensive and stupid. So, the space colony should be autonomous.

The first biosphere was built in Russia in the mid-60s. She used chlorella algae to recycle the air that her inhabitants breathe. Also cultivated crops for food. BIOS-3 worked until 1984, and the longest autonomous period was 180 days. However, it has never been a completely closed system. Biosphere-2 (2 - because the original of the biosphere was the Earth), built in the USA in the late 80s, coped with two main missions and allowed several small experiments to be carried out.

During the second mission, the biosphere contained not only crops for food, but other plants as well as animals. The mission failed in September 1994 after 10 months of work. And the failure was truly epic. Animals died (although insects lived in clover), oxygen levels dropped, people were wildly hungry, and most interestingly, they fought among themselves and divided into factions. The psychological factor ruined everything. Biosphere-2 is considered by some to be a "happy failure". The mission was not completed, but we learned a lot along the way. On the other hand, no one will live in the biosphere in the near future.

In the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States, the latter were assigned an important role: to be the first to land a man on the moon. President John F. Kennedy promised to send astronauts before 1961 to plant a flag on the lunar surface and bring them back. The whole world watched Neil Armstrong take his first steps in low gravity, and it seemed so incredible that many still believe that. Science fiction writers all over the world rushed to write books (although even before that Robert Heinlein did a good job) about how gloriously humanity will live on an earthly satellite. And although after that NASA sent people to the moon four times, interest in its development has irrevocably faded. Forty years later, we have trampled the moon far and wide, but we have not come one iota closer to establishing a colony.

But is there anything that can kill the interest in space exploration in a human being? Hardly.

Probes sent to the moon have returned with data that there is water in the form of ice on the Earth's natural satellite. This will be useful for the future colony. After George W. Bush announced in 2004 that humanity needed to speed up manned flights to the moon, NASA is on the far side of the moon by 2020. Other countries and organizations have their own plans - and some of them also include colonies and outposts. But whether it is implemented is another question. For the colonization of the Moon (if it still comes first after Mars), many logistical issues still need to be finalized: long-term sources of food and drinking water, electricity and atmosphere are the minimum. Also, what to do with low gravity, and who will be the "mayor" of the colony? You may visit the moon during your lifetime, but you will definitely not see its first settlers.

flying houses

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We fly planes, but imagine being able to move your house from place to place instead of having to travel. It would be much more convenient not to pack a suitcase and family and not bother, what did you forget this time: a passport or a head? But we even have, not to mention launching your housing into the air. Although scientists have been puzzling over this issue for about a hundred years.

Private jets are also an unaffordable luxury. Among several "homes of the future" during the 1950s and 1960s were hangars or even landing pads, anticipating the spread of personal flying vehicles. Everyone assumed that the cost of private jets would fall, and the public didn't care about the price of fuel or the difficulty of building "sky highways" across the country. Now think about a flying house. Try to imagine an ordinary house, only in the sky. We don't live in Oz. How will he take off? How much money will it take to “refuel” it? We haven't even come close to being realistic.

The closest analogue to a flying home today is a luxury private jet. Inside are huge soft seats and comfortable beds, wooden furniture, bathrooms and kitchens. Some chefs even have their own bath. On airplanes. Unfortunately, the price tag of such a “house” eloquently hints at your well-being.

This is another memory of the "House of the Future", which we wrote about above. Yes, about the one that was at the nuclear reactor. This house proudly declared that it was made entirely of plastic and other man-made materials. Floors, furniture - all made of plastic. Monsanto was the leader in plastics at the time. This material was very cheap and very easy to make even in the 1950s. Lightweight, comfortable, durable, in different shapes, textures and colors - why not an amazing clay for everything you want to mold? No cockroaches, easy to clean, the decomposition period will not let the house crumble.

Plastic is ubiquitous. But do any of you live in a plastic house? Habit is our second nature, and although we love new technologies, it is not at all necessary to try on all their derivatives at once. People prefer comfortable materials when they build their own housing, wood and fabric, no cold gloss.

Of course, many modern materials are made from plastic - and at home - but they are far from the shiny glossy plastic of the 50s.

Buttons, buttons, buttons

The houses of the future, which were created as projects in the 50s and 60s, were passionate about kitchen equipment. It was on this training ground for housewives that designers and engineers could fully reveal their talents - after all, bedrooms and living rooms were similar for the most part. The kitchens in the “houses of the future” didn’t even look like kitchens - they looked like empty rooms with a lot of paneling on the walls and ceiling.

Press the button and the kitchen will get colder - so perishable food would be saved. Another button would open the microwave oven (which had plans to completely replace the oven). The third one would turn the plates over, opening the sink and other useful places. The entire kitchen was hidden in itself so that the housewife was not in the way of unnecessary appliances, and she could open only those panels that would be needed when preparing the menu for today. Cool, right?

Nobody thought about practicality. All moving elements require energy, attention (if they break) and constant connection. You go to the kitchen to drink a glass of water, but the "cupboard" will break and will not let you finish what you started. In any case, all modern kitchens are full of useful appliances that are easily built into furniture and do not require changing the format of the room as such.

The lyophilization technology well-known in the food industry (“freeze-dry”, “freeze-dried coffee”) has been around for centuries. The indigenous people of Peru lay potatoes out in the cold, freeze them, and then let them dry in intense sunlight. This ingenious method works great for other products as well. During World War II, "freeze-drying" was used to transport medicines like serum that needed constant refrigeration. When dry food is frozen and then dried in a vacuum, you get flakes, porous and light cubes and balls. Then you add water or milk and you get a treat. The problem is that dehydrated food tastes very different from the original.

This method is used to supply food to astronauts and cosmonauts in orbit. They also eat condensed food and mashed tubes, like the kind people use to get toothpaste out of. We were so inspired by space flights that we wanted to join the astronauts by eating their food. Many kitchens of the future included home freeze-drying projects. The same instant coffee is done. But such food did not take root. Nobody wanted to eat toothpaste.

Videophones

And then you thought: “Wait a minute ... I have a videophone: Skype or FaceTime, smartphone, webcam ...”. You're right. But we're talking about videophones that could replace the voice phones that are now thriving. You can skype someone who is far away from you, but you are unlikely to order pizza late at night using this service. And even more so, the pizza operator is unlikely to want to see you.

A French illustrator named Villemart drew an "epistolary cinema" in 1910 that showed an image of a person projected onto a wall. It turns out that they started talking about videophones earlier than about TVs.

For the most part, early videophones broadcast photos from a normal phone call rather than live video. In 1936, the first videophone system appeared between the German cities of Berlin and Leipzig. After that, in the 1960s, AT&T demonstrated a videophone called the Picturephone at the Disneyland fair. In 1964, AT&T even installed a couple of Picturephones in the country, but they proved expensive and unpopular.

And although today a video call costs a penny and computer-assisted video telephony is gaining popularity, we still prefer voice communication. Perhaps we are too lazy to comb our hair and look better with every call. Perhaps we prefer to talk face-to-face with the interlocutor, and not with his digital copy. Videophones would be great for the deaf, but as long as we don't have wall-sized televisions, they're useless.

Domestic robots

Today you can buy a robot that will mow your floors or mow your lawn, even wash your socks, but that's about it. No cooking, no glass cleaning, no bathroom cleaning. Why not?

There are a lot of “jobs” for robots: car assembly, assembly line work, bomb disposal and microsurgery. However, servant robots remain a myth. Bill Gates wrote in an article in Scientific American a few years ago that one of the main problems remains the lack of standardization, both in software and hardware. It is also incredibly difficult to teach a robot the ability to distinguish a door from a window and respond correctly to speech.

Improvements in wireless and voice recognition technology, as well as lower hardware costs, could well see a mechanized maid in your living room. On the other hand, you can clean up the kitchen yourself by watching a series on the display of your Wi-Fi refrigerator and save time.

Although, when the time comes, who knows in the form of what we will exist.

In the modern world, technology is advancing in a big step, radically changing our lives. Many companies producing various household appliances are already endowing it with artificial intelligence, moreover, many devices are able to unite into a single network (which allows them to "communicate" with each other and with the owner) thus forming the Smart Home system. Of course, such systems are still far from the famous house of Tony Stark, where artificial intelligence - the butler Jarvis spoke almost like a person, completely controlled the house and could create holograms everywhere. But this is only the beginning!

If earlier saying “Smart Home”, most often they meant a complex and expensive system of remote control of light, heating and other systems, today this concept has become much broader. “Smart” finishing materials have already appeared, programs for smartphones that allow you to control electrical appliances from a distance, robots that can do the cleaning for you, and much more. Especially for you, we have identified three main technologies that can change our homes and the comfort of living in them in the future.

1. Smart home - smart materials

All surfaces in the homes of the future will be made from “smart materials”, which will allow many different functions. For example, walls to be able to block Wi - Fi signal, thus ensuring the impossibility of hacking and "theft" of your Wi - Fi, French researchers from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble have created wallpapers that help prevent electromagnetic pollution and "theft" of Wi - Fi. Special paper blocks the Wi-Fi signal, thereby preventing it from penetrating outside a separate room or house.

The windows of your house, which are installed on the Rehau press fitting, will also become multifunctional, turning into huge transparent screens - this technology was presented at CES 2012. Samsung specialists have developed Smart Window - windows that, as journalists said, resemble "giant transparent tablets ". Another development in this area is the GravitySpace floor, which is able to recognize people by their body weight. At the same time, this floor is a large screen on which, for example, a virtual ball can appear if you want to play football.

2. Smart home appliances

Smart home appliances will also be multifunctional. For example, on the refrigerator screen, you can search for recipes, leave notes, and more. In 2013, Samsung introduced the T9000 refrigerator, which runs on the Android operating system. On its screen, you can not only search for recipes, but also view the Google calendar, write notes in Evernote, listen to music and even send tweets.

In general, all household appliances will become intelligent and can be controlled not only with the help of buttons, but simply by giving voice commands. So already now there are such artificial intelligence technologies for the home as “Cleopatra”, thanks to which the “smart home” can recognize quite a lot of voice commands, such as “turn on the light in the living room”, “reduce the temperature to so many degrees” and the like. In addition, thanks to the built-in motion sensors and the built-in sensor in the owner's watch, the "smart home" knows in advance about his approach to the door and opens them. Also, for example, "Cleopatra" can report missed calls, remind you of various events, etc.

Already, most manufacturers of household appliances are embedding remote control systems in their products, thanks to which one or another household appliance can be turned on or off simply by pressing the desired button on the smartphone screen. Pretty soon, such technologies will allow you to control all appliances in the house from your smartphone: from a coffee maker to a door lock.

3. Smart robots - assistants

If robots - vacuum cleaners are now becoming commonplace, then the work of assistants who can fully do all the housework for you has not yet become a reality. Moreover, in such universal robots - assistants as in the movie "I am a robot" is still very, very far away. But this does not mean that in the near future there will be no helper robots in our intelligent house - instead of one, there will be several universal robots, each of which will perform certain functions.

Many have already been developed, of which: the Hector robot can remind the elderly owner of the need to take pills; the Roomba robot will vacuum the floor itself, and the Mint robot will wash it; The Mirra robot was created to clean the pool. Also this year at CES 2013, the Winbot robot was introduced, which can clean windows by itself.

It's a pity, but humanoid robots - assistants, are not yet available to an ordinary citizen. Honda's Asimo is the only working humanoid robot assistant. True, so far the list of its capabilities is quite limited, in addition, it cannot be bought, but can only be rented.

Of course, most of you will say that “Smart Home” technology, even in developed countries, will not be widely used soon, but in Russia it will get decades later, but we can say with confidence that this is not so. Already now in Russia there are companies that offer advanced developments in systems of this type, including industrial land for the construction of high-tech enterprises. Therefore, it is possible that very soon you, dear reader, will be able to appreciate all the advantages of a “smart home”.