How Smart Does Your Bed Have To Be, Before You Are Afraid To Go To Sleep At Night?
Snipets from a wonderful presentation by RichGold (ex-XeroxParc) about intelligent houses and why and how things are designed. Linked via worldchaning.com.
Do you believe that making pancakes for you and your lover in the morning is in itself a wonderful thing? If you were asked by your company to design a product called "Lover's Instant Pancakes" would you? Would you do it because that's your job or because, perhaps, you think it would give you more time for love making? What if they're not quite as good as made from scratch pancakes in taste? What if they don't quite fill the kitchen with the same smell? What if they contain a small, though probably not harmful, amount of preservative? If you are an architect and "Lover's Instant Pancakes" was a major success, would you build a special chute from the kitchen to the bedroom so that nobody has to leave bed to get the pancakes? Is there something special about the cold feet of a lover returning to bed? How do you know your lover loves you? What do you and your lover talk about?
- .. Is time the only real commodity left? Why is Virtual Reality always posited in terms of space, when time is the only real commodity left?