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1980S Smart Home


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1980S Smart Home. The house with its striking. Smart home automation was actually a possibility back in the 1980’s.

Watch the "Smart Home" of the 1980's in action Old News Club
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In the 1980s and 1990s, early home automation systems emerged, offering basic control of lighting, heating, and security. At that time, “smart home” was still a foreign concept in house building for most people and not even in sight. Watch the video below, and try to imagine hooking up your entire home to either of these systems without losing your mind in a sea of manual switches, archaic interfaces, variables, conditions.

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Watch the "Smart Home" of the 1980's in action Old News Club

The house with its striking. The first home automation systems emerged in the late 1980s, paving the way for the future of smart home technology. The house with its striking. Smart home technology isn’t perfect (as anyone who owns an amazon echo that’s been activated by an episode of south park knows), but it’s come a long way since the 1980s.

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