How Smart Glass might change the need for window treatments.


LOW TECH vs HIGH TECH






Along with motorization and smart homes a new development may make homes, institutions and commercial buildings -  incredibly futuristic. Having glass that darkens automatically may make window treatments, even motorized window treatments.... obsolete.

Here is a well thought out and cleverly written article which sizes up the situation.

http://www.cepro.com/article/smart_glass_vs_motorized_shades_a_new_opportunity_for_integrators/D2/




http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/17678979/list/is-it-curtains-for-curtains-smart-glass-eliminates-window-coverings



At the risk of seeming a bit of a Luddite... I wonder how long before this kind of treatment will be available and cost effective for other than the highest end customer?

For along with the ability to implement this comes another caveat.... should everything be powered? Should everything be computer controlled? Just because we have the ability to power up, and create a smart home, or create motorized shades, shutters, and window treatments... should we?

As an old farmer once said to me, more than 30 years ago... should we be electrifying every square inch of the world?

Or put in another way... when the power eventually goes out...what happens then? Sometimes low tech has its advantages. Sometimes a window is more than a window.

Psychologically windows seem to be heading into a mindset that is increasingly about control and decreasingly about change in one's worldview. Increasingly about isolation and decreasingly about adaptation to what is...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass

https://www.youtube.com/user/SmartGlass1




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