Thriller on ARD on 15.12. "The House"

That's also how I see it with smart homes, and furthermore: in 30 years everyone will simply have one and no one will be able to imagine how it was without. 20 years ago people laughed at online shopping saying "I don't need that" and someone with a mobile phone was still an "show-off" 25 years ago...

… Going with the flow doesn't make it any better though. It's no coincidence that detox seminars for digital private life are offered, and personal challenges for a year of FB/Insta/tik/twi/tg abstinence are carried out. If it weren't for Corona and the necessary barcode, quite a few would gladly just leave their phones at home again. The vaccine refusers or the "they're all lying" folks among us are primarily streamers and only watch what they select, without ever following randomly switched on documentaries. Through company messengers you get woken up at one o'clock in the night by "important" messages. Not only I get annoyed by people who talk into their phones when out among the public as if they were alone. Pedestrians in traffic no longer perceive anything around them. So it doesn't only have advantages. Online trade used to be mail order trade. Amazon didn't invent mail order ;) In my old house I had an astro control for the blinds: we then turned them all off because we felt like subordinating ourselves to the house. For what was shown in the movie, I am partly too impatient. While the door opens, I feel like I've already gone back and forth twice :p And no: I'm not against digitalization or technology - you just have to think about whether you need "all of that" (because everyone has/wants it or it's new) or just a bit personalized.

While the door opens, I feel like I've already gone through twice

In the film, much is due to the design. The doors are the way they are because the designer/house owner/whoever decided to forgo handles for reasons unknown to us. Hence the necessity of "door open"—whether that's much better, well, I don't know. But you don't have to worry about someone pushing the door open. Drives in such doors are usually self-locking. So a certain degree of security is therefore added. And yes, of course, there must be a possibility for emergency opening from the inside. As we learned from the film, it only works from the outside if the technician is present.

… Swimming along, however, does not make it any better.

Simply swimming along rarely makes anything better. Often, thinking stops there. The future is shaped in the mind.

And no: I am not against digitalization or technology – you just have to consider whether you need "all of it" (because everyone has/wants it or it is new) or just a little personalized.

I am a big fan of digitalization and automation. That there are enormous efficiency reserves in digitalization and automation is undisputed. We need these efficiency reserves in our handling of resources. That digitalization and automation can also have downsides is also undisputed.
I am a big fan of technological progress and I also deal with it professionally. If my wife and I were 30 years old, we would go all-in on smart technology. Having grown up with digital devices and a natural understanding of software and menu navigation, there would be no special questions for either of us about it. We would take updates and upgrades with the greatest self-understanding. We are in our early 50s and have built a house that we both want to still understand at 80. Older people often reflect on what they already knew as children. The future can also be shaped.

In the movie, many things are due to the design. The doors are like that because the designer/house owner/whoever decided to do without handles for reasons unknown to us.

Yes, many things looked really awesome!

The doors without handles remind me: An acquaintance was stuck in the elevator between the garage and the kitchen for a few hours with his not-so-friendly mother-in-law in his new house. We still laugh about it to this day. It was worth it multiple times just for the good time related to this story :D .

Yes, that's how it is, no matter how much you invest in technology. In the end, you need a manual emergency opening.



Yes, the house design was quite appealing, although I do wonder what possessed the film crew to install a TV leaning against the wall right in the middle of the way.