Raise your hands if you think that by 2100, we will have flying cars, robots with artificial intelligence, holidays on Mars and utterly intelligent houses.
People have been making predictions about what the future would look like for ages. Sadly, they are usually far-fetched or even utopian and society doesn’t seem to keep up with creative wishes. So, are the predictions extremely ambitious or we don’t put enough effort into bringing wild ideas to life? There’s a huge question mark tied to what’s coming in the future. And although cutting-edge technology moves at a fast pace and many ideas that seemed outlandish in the past are more than real nowadays, we shouldn’t be carried away by fantasies because the future might disappoint.
Angie’s List teamed up with Neomam Studios to visualize 7 of the most eccentric futuristic ideas people had about our future houses with their realistic architectural renderings. A team of researchers and artists gathered science-fiction style concepts of homes our ancestors imagined for us from various decades of the 20th century. “Sometimes astute, sometimes idealistic, often absurd, reflecting today on these dreams of how we might have lived creates a sense of nostalgia for that lost innocence,” – notes Angie’s List.
Seems like folks had serious hopes for the future. How would they react to what we’ve actually achieved? Step inside the homes that were never built. But who knows what the future holds…