Day Made of Glass

We’ve been working on some interior selections for a project recently and I came across this [Day Made of Glass video]( that has over 10,000,000 hits as of today on YouTube. Maybe you have seen it. Its yet another reminder of how fast technology changes and how we have to adapt and incorporate new products and services into the experiences of designing residences for people to live. It was less than four years ago that no one had an iPhone. Think about that… no touchscreen in anyone’s hands, let alone mobile instant communication through social media channels. How many people go around today comparison shopping apartments with their iPhone or iPad? Today, no one has video glass on their countertops (at least not that I have seen). Obviously, there are major implications to residential design if any of these technologies by Corning make it mainstream in our careers. I am still getting my head around the implications for us in apartment design and construction. What most intrigues me is what wasn’t shown in the video. Why not an entire wall of “touch glass” in a living room? What would happen to that space that we so carefully design for furniture placement? If apartment or condo developers can provide every resident’s “entertainment wall,” then have we just created a new income stream and replaced the need for residents to buy a TV? I’m just scratching the surface here. Let me know what you think.