Smarter Homes: How Technology Will Change Your Home Life

© Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino 2018

Alexandra Deschamps-SonsinoSmarter Homeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3363-4_1

1. Everything Electric

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino¹ 

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London, UK

 

For the modern smart home to exist, it’s useful to go back in history and examine the social conditions that made integrating new technologies possible and even desirable. It’s also important to look carefully at the types of technologies that have been able to find their way into the home and to question why they have been so successful. It hasn’t always come down to technological advances and entrepreneurship, and as we’ll see, much of what made the home a trampoline for new technologies was political will and policy-making. We’ll start with the heart of the ndustrialization ...