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Future Technologies & Practices Impacting the Home

Explore how technology mediates between home and community, changing kitchen roles and eating habits. Discover the impact of networking, mobile information, and local web services on repositioning homes within communities.

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Future Technologies & Practices Impacting the Home

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  1. Future Technologies & Practices Impacting the Home Joseph ‘Jofish’ Kaye MIT Media Lab jofish@media.mit.edu

  2. Technology can mediate between home and community • Practices Changes • Changing role of the kitchen • Changing implementation of eating • Technology Changes • Networking: home, wireless, always-on, broadband • Mobile information • Local Wide Web

  3. Technology can reposition the (American) home within the community

  4. Practices: The Changing Role of the Kitchen • What happens in the kitchen? • Communication ~2. Eating ~3+. Cooking • Repartitioning of homespace: “Great Room” with kitchen as (a) focal point • Recombinant architecture: world to kitchen and kitchen to world

  5. Meals Eaten at Home: Trend

  6. Practices: Eating trends • People eat less in the home: -5% over 10 yrs1 • 51% restaurant meals eaten in the home: +10% over 10 yrs2 • 71% don’t plan that night’s meal before 4pm2 1: Robert Smith, Maytag 2: Larry Lafata, GE Appliances

  7. Social/Technology: e-commerce: no big deal • JASET: Just Another Shopping Enabling Technology • 1850s: Department stores – steel, elevators • 1870s: Catalogs - telegraph • 1910s: Supermarkets - railways • 1950s: Malls - cars • 1990s: e-commerce – internet • Technology supports shopping experiences Genevieve Bell , Intel Corporation

  8. Technology: Networking • ‘Always-on’ is more important than ‘broadband’ (Practice vs Technology) • Cable Modems & DSL (even in US,most still use modems) • In-home networking (No killer app) • Prerequisites for wide use of RFID • Wireless: 802.11; community based!

  9. Sidebar: 802.11 Networks • Wireless networking: PC Card • 11Mbps  standard wired networking • Commercial: Ricochet (but low on $$$), Starbucks, • Grassroots! DavisNet (Boston), Consume the Net (London), Seattle, SF…

  10. Technology: Mobile • Mobile phone spread • A lot. Insert your favorite statistic here. • SMS / text messaging • Prototype cellphone payment systems • Future: your cellphone is your credit card?

  11. Technology: Local Wide Web • Geographic reference systems: GPS, Wherehoo1, GML, etc. • Local organic farmers, etc. • E-commerce models: local delivery • Tiered delivery systems: deliver to gas stations, donut shops, corner stores • The Bodega Unit 1:wherehoo.media.mit.edu

  12. Technology in the home and community • Taylor 1912: efficiency • Industry: efficiency = technology • So technology = efficiency, right? • Not in the context of the home

  13. Expectation: Technology can reposition the (American) home within the community, with multiple points of entry into the house, supporting local relationships.

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