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The home of the future, then and now. (Features).
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Canadian Home Economics Journal
- Article date:
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March 22, 2003
- Author:
- Hamilton, Sheryl N.
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From Buckminster Fuller's 1928 Dymaxion House, to Disney and Monsanto's 1957 allplastic House of the Future, to the 1962 cartoon of future suburban bliss, The Jetsons, our visions of the home of the future are inevitably also visions of technology. This link between technology, home, and the future is and has been a central social discourse in North American culture over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This essay explores the ways in which technology, home, and the future have been figured together in media culture over the past 50 years. (1) I suggest that our images of domestic techno-utopias both reflect and reproduce our understanding of the proper place of ...