The Future of the Home

Homes will not just be places in which we live. They will nurture us, care for us, and connect us to the world, shaped by ambient sensing, AI, new construction methods, and connected communities. See what is coming and build for it.

Ross Dawson has presented on the future of the home to executive teams at global technology and consumer organizations, and wrote the report for Intel Security, The Future of Digital Australia in 2025, which examined how homes will change.

Keynote overview

Rooms that do work. Bathrooms, kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms each gain functions, serving the people in them rather than simply housing them.
Health at home. Ambient data moves routine health monitoring into the house, which changes both care and the relationship with clinicians.
Voice, gesture and agents. Homes respond to instruction rather than operation, and an agent acting on your behalf inside the house is a different thing from a smart appliance.
Humans + AI at home. The question is not what the house can automate but what it should decide, and where the resident keeps the judgment.
How houses get built. New construction techniques including open source 3D printing change what a house costs and how fast it appears.
Connected neighborhoods. Houses that communicate with each other support residents in ways a single connected house cannot.

Who it is for

Consumer technology, appliance and construction companies, developers, utilities and telecommunications providers, and research teams working on connected living.

Where this work has been done

Ross has presented on the future of the home to executive teams, contributed perspectives to corporate research projects, and appeared extensively in broadcast media on how homes will change.