"Home Automation in the 90s" Hometime TV Show THE HOUSE OF THE FUTURE (1991)

Here we have a 1991 episode of Hometime. This is the last in the series of "The Home of the Future." Well, I'm from the future and I can tell you most people don't own a mansion, so we don't need that level of automation. It is very impressive amount of automation for the 90s. Plus we get a glimpse of internet history as they automate the house with Prodigy internet and automatic controls.

Also, Joanne Liebeler does NOT look comfortable on camera in most of these scenes. (This guy wrote a whole article in 1993 creeping on this lady... https://greensboro.com/hometime-lost-...) I had never seen this show or person before, but she does not look at ease on camera. Also, the idea of owning a house this size as an average person is ludicrous these days. This would be at least a 5 million dollar home in 2024. The automation of the time would have been EXTREMELY expensive as well.

People were still rolling with Apple 2's at this time. That's not a lot of compute power to run a home, so it requires multiple systems. I LOVE the way the old internet looks. It looks just like the security interface in Jurassic Park. There's some great 90's furniture and design language visible in the house as well. Though sometimes if you listen to what they say, they clearly have no idea how computers (or even remotes) seem to work.

Also the editor left in "annnnd cut" 09:58

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