Here Comes the Home of the Future

W. Bruce Cameron

Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007.

The Home of the Future, I’ve been told, will have all of its appliances wired to the Internet, giving them what they’ve always needed, which is the ability to find pictures of female dishwashers. If you’re at work, you can log on to your home account and look inside your refrigerator, though if you’re a man you still won’t be able to find the mayonnaise without a woman’s help.

You’ll get phone calls like this:

“Hello, this is your oven. The microwave is making faces at me again - tell it to stop.”

Your refri...