Comments on: In The Year Two Thousaaaand! http://www.wannanetwork.com/2010/02/05/in-the-year-two-thousaaaand/ WannaNetwork.com - Connecting Homeowners And Local Real Estate Professionals Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dotloop.com http://www.wannanetwork.com/2010/02/05/in-the-year-two-thousaaaand/comment-page-1/#comment-2020 Dotloop.com Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:14:10 +0000 http://www.wannanetwork.com/?p=2089#comment-2020 Well put, Vancouver. I talked about the huge house epidemic last month, too. (http://dotloop.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-would-thoreau-build.html) I love the idea about cultural lag, though. People will always be people, so I don't see every person wearing silver jump suits in the future. I always found it funny how movies in the future always assume technology will just work. Apparently, tech support won't be needed in the suture. Thanks for the post! Nick Sweeney The DotLoop Team Well put, Vancouver. I talked about the huge house epidemic last month, too. (http://dotloop.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-would-thoreau-build.html)

I love the idea about cultural lag, though. People will always be people, so I don’t see every person wearing silver jump suits in the future. I always found it funny how movies in the future always assume technology will just work. Apparently, tech support won’t be needed in the suture.

Thanks for the post!

Nick Sweeney
The DotLoop Team

]]> By: Vancouver Jay http://www.wannanetwork.com/2010/02/05/in-the-year-two-thousaaaand/comment-page-1/#comment-2019 Vancouver Jay Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:35:55 +0000 http://www.wannanetwork.com/?p=2089#comment-2019 This kind of reminded of W. Ogburn's theory of cultural lag I've read about some time ago (though the concept itself is relatively old). This theory speaks of a period that occurs when the society is struggling to adapt to new technological innovations. During this period we often fail to understand new technologies and we tend to overestimate their impact. It happened when television came, it happened when the Internet came, it happens all the time. But these average homes predictions are somehow different. Perhaps we are just slowly learning to become more sober with our expectations and that's why these articles aren't predicting flying cars and they are perfectly happy with houses with programmable thermostats and real estate market in 2015. On the other hand, it still seems a bit futuristic to me - the trend toward bigger and bigger houses mentioned in one of the articles. I mean, people in the US are struggling with the outcomes of the crisis, facing foreclosures, etc., and I'm not sure that they would be willing - and able - to buy some huge house in 2015. This kind of reminded of W. Ogburn’s theory of cultural lag I’ve read about some time ago (though the concept itself is relatively old). This theory speaks of a period that occurs when the society is struggling to adapt to new technological innovations. During this period we often fail to understand new technologies and we tend to overestimate their impact. It happened when television came, it happened when the Internet came, it happens all the time.

But these average homes predictions are somehow different. Perhaps we are just slowly learning to become more sober with our expectations and that’s why these articles aren’t predicting flying cars and they are perfectly happy with houses with programmable thermostats and real estate market in 2015.

On the other hand, it still seems a bit futuristic to me – the trend toward bigger and bigger houses mentioned in one of the articles. I mean, people in the US are struggling with the outcomes of the crisis, facing foreclosures, etc., and I’m not sure that they would be willing – and able – to buy some huge house in 2015.

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