If you look back at magazines from the 1950’s, you will see an automated wonderland where all a human has to do is to simply show up: everything else is handled for you. But that reality never really fully happened, did it?
One exciting aspect of all of this actually happening is that manufacturers are working together. IFTTT (If this then that) is an open-source software system that allows users of smart products to connect and operate them with automated commands.
So a coffee machine, for example, can be timed to operate at a certain time of day, or when a specific sensor detects movement. Utilised as part of a network of smart products, every electrical aspect of a home can be scheduled and operated under a specific routine.
If this lifestyle was presented to you, how do you think you would react?
Read more here (courtesy of ArchDaily.com) and see what one person discovered.
