By the end of WWI and during the interwar period, the commercialization of new additions to the home would bring in new ways of interacting with information and entertainment: the radio, dedicated music players, and the television would come to define leisure and convenience, adding to the notion of effeciency. The telephone would additionally give homeowners the ability to negotiate this newfound leisure time alone or with others. Guy Debord’s “society of the spectacle” was being built thanks to new technologies in the home space.
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Alexandra Deschamps-SonsinoSmarter Homeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3363-4_33. Pleasure and Convenience
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