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imomusTouring the Home of the Future, the article I wrote based on your help last week, has just gone up on the Wired site. Length restrictions and the need for a neat format (I ended up structuring the piece around an unreliable tour guide showing us a house of the future) made me restrict your inventions to things that could be found indoors. Thanks again to everyone who took time out on Boxing Day to suggest stuff!
My own home of the near future will be enhanced by a computer almost as large as the one you see in this picture. I'm planning to buy a 24" iMac (I haven't had a desktop system since about 2000, my nomadic lifestyle and slim budget haven't really allowed one). And the main thing I'll be doing with it is writing a book -- "Lives of the Composers", a rambling hagiography detailing the lives of fictional musicians. The book has been commissioned by Paris publisher La Volte. It'll be written in English, translated into French, and no doubt licensed to an English-language publisher too. Its flavour will be reminiscent of the work of writers like Italo Calvino, Lucian, Marcel Schwob, Bruno Schulz, and Laurence Sterne. It'll also read a bit like my short story 7 Lies About Holger Hiller.
I've spent most of my life being literary in non-literary contexts -- telling stories in art galleries and on pop records. Now comes the terrifying moment when I find out whether I can do it between the covers of a book. In my own personal home of the future, then, something rather old-fashioned will be happening. On a big new screen.
My own home of the near future will be enhanced by a computer almost as large as the one you see in this picture. I'm planning to buy a 24" iMac (I haven't had a desktop system since about 2000, my nomadic lifestyle and slim budget haven't really allowed one). And the main thing I'll be doing with it is writing a book -- "Lives of the Composers", a rambling hagiography detailing the lives of fictional musicians. The book has been commissioned by Paris publisher La Volte. It'll be written in English, translated into French, and no doubt licensed to an English-language publisher too. Its flavour will be reminiscent of the work of writers like Italo Calvino, Lucian, Marcel Schwob, Bruno Schulz, and Laurence Sterne. It'll also read a bit like my short story 7 Lies About Holger Hiller.
I've spent most of my life being literary in non-literary contexts -- telling stories in art galleries and on pop records. Now comes the terrifying moment when I find out whether I can do it between the covers of a book. In my own personal home of the future, then, something rather old-fashioned will be happening. On a big new screen.