What will our future homes look like?
Happy Back to the Future Day! Today is the day when the producers of the trilogy predicted that we would have flying cars and hoverboards everywhere! Although I've seen plenty of hoverboard versions around recently, at least they're not flying.
Predicting the future is obviously very, very difficult. But if you could predict what our future homes would look like in say, 2050, what do you think would characterise them? Which materials will be popular (will glass reign supreme?), which features will we have in our homes?
Go ahead and make a guess!
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