More than seventy years, the "futuristic" predicted that our world will be awash in jet packs, flying-cars, moving sidewalks, personal robot assistants, mile-high city, and do not forget the ambiguous holiday on the moon Or better yet on Mars.
Similar to the pen in front of a series of playful kittens, the kitchen of the future with all of their time and labor-saving gadgets and gizmo's, was dangled in front of American consumers since 1939 New York Worlds Fair, but for me the future become a reality one days very hot summer of 1960, while I stood in line at Disneyland to see the house that would change my life forever, the house of the future ... Monsanto House.
my first impression of the future, as well as eight years old boy, was that it would be cool. Ice cold air air conditioner exploded in the skin as I walked out of the hot and sticky Anaheim heat wave. There is a future ... presented before me as a buffet. embodiment of every science fiction movie, TV show, books, magazines and comics I've ever seen, all before me in glorious molded plastic, and as expected, everything was white or chrome with color accents, it would be easy to see my life in this house tomorrow.
and cuisine of this brave new world is set up like a medical lab. shining, gleaming, pristine nature, where the actual food preparation and food will be banned and we would pop "food-pills, " and spend "radar range" freeze-dried dinners, and our own personal robot assistant will clean up the dishes using water without the sound machine washing dishes, and we would all talk to our friends and family on the Viz-a-Phone after dinner.
Fortunately many of these visions of things are still science fiction. However, as we have Wade knee in the 21 century, we find that some of Monsanto's vision survived and evolved. the ubiquitous microwave oven has evolved from radar ranging up to daily kitchen stone. Magnetic induction cook-top with its heat without cooking it right from the Jetson's and integrated dishwasher, though not sonic sorry to say, a standard feature in every American home.
"Good morning, Kevin" comes a disembodied voice like HAL, the computer self awarded in 2001. "You're up early today ... Did you sleep well?" "Just good food, " I answered: "I'm an early morning meeting at the office ... so I'm in a hurry. " "coffee or cappuccino?" comes a voice ... "Coffee please, " says I. .. , cereal or eggs? "asks Kitchen. "Just this morning I toasted the answer ..." CNN or Sponge Bob "as the screen on the refrigerator comes to life ... and so my day begins. Science Fiction? No, just look at what is coming.
Imagine for a moment in the not too distant future when "the Wi-Fi"-enabled home will allow the dishwasher to call you at work to let you know that sprang a leak ... but not to worry, it's already informed the service company and they will be out between 9 and 12 on Tuesday. Or maybe you're caught in rush-hour traffic and you will be 30 minutes late ... So you call your oven from your cell phone to recalibrate during cooking to baking to be ready at 8:30. Even better your oven will be able to connect with manufacturers to self-diagnose it-yourself and down load the new recipes and cooking instructions.
With these new networks, your refrigerator will be able to take inventory of myself and put that all pre-programmed items will be charged automatically to the online grocery service. He also ordered a few extra things that will be needed for tonight's dinner. It can even make a few suggestions on wine.
networked devices will be the next big thing to hit your kitchen ... with "blue tooth" technology is slowly creeping into our home electronics ... It will only be a matter of time before the kitchen, again becoming the city center of family life. Appliances think and plan-out menus, re-re-order and stocks are already on the assembly lines. The next wave of microwave you have a scanner to read the package of chili or popcorn, and then advance it to work.
family calendar on the refrigerator will update all of the calendars, from Mom's computer at work, SIS mobile. It will be able to download the update brother iPod with all your favorites and Dad can check on the solar collectors on the roof, and energy consumption for the whole house ... He will even be able to exclude light from his cell. This will keep everyone informed with all day events and activities, including football training and dental liability ... It will even remind you that her grandmother and grandfather tablets to 6:30 Tee-Time.
As with other appliances ... as they are connected to the internet ... They will be received electronic up-grades and they can self-diagnose problems and taking cures. One day your kitchen will read your personal electro-magnetic field when you enter the kitchen and start to brew your favorite beverage and restoring your portfolio, all while waiting for the cakes to be fried.
At the end of the kitchen itself will become one big, connected to a device that reads your lifestyle patterns, we expect their need for food, lighting, entertainment and cleaning, and perform functions automatically, all without explicit human control.
So where is the future I was promised as a child? I had invested all the time in books and movies and I knew every nook and cranny and put back in the future and with great disappointment, I woke up one morning to the world as it was and he lived out of my day feeling a little cheated.
But then something happened, the future has caught up with me. I realized one day not so long ago, I lived my youth in the future, but only without the official uniform of the future, the one-piece uni-tard. I have a Bluetooth firmly lodged in my ear, I drive an electric car, I can watch TV and communicate instantaneously, around the world via e-mail, IM or Twitter ... all from my cell phone. I do not have a personal assistant robot, but I have to lift your legs every now and then with Rumba comes scooting across the floor. I knew for sure I was living in the future, as I sat on my couch, watching the live streaming images of Mars U.S., while eating micro-waved popcorn. Now if I only had a jet-pack.
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