ABSTRACT
In the midst of the current housing crisis and economic collapse, it may well be odd to speak about housing, even less the high-tech smart home with its equally high-ticket price. The smart home began to emerge as a semipractical housing form in the 1980s, but its cultural form dates back to a longer history of ‘homes of tomorrow’, predicated on automation and technological gadgets. 1 Today, the fates of architecture, home technologies and residential real estate are increasingly intertwined, not just through corporate mergers, but also through speculative fictions as well as artistic and popular practices that form a cultural context for our imagination of home, technology and everyday life.
