The “House of Tomorrow” has a long history, and yet, it has always been just out of reach. In the 1950s the world was promised innovation after innovation, changing our lives fundamentally and ushering in a new era of automation. Of course, washing machines, dishwashers, and microwaves gave us more free time than ever before, however, that unbridled technological idealism was never quite fulfilled.
In truth, we might no longer have quite the same vision as to what the future will look like as those 50s futurists, however, everyone’s clear that they were on to something! Today, plastic might be on the way out, and “stereophonic recordings on built-in high-fidelity equipment” is just a long-winded way of saying “Bluetooth speaker”, but those early predictions are still guiding a nascent IoT industry today—an industry that is inextricably linked to PropTech.