ᐅ Thriller on ARD on December 15: "The House"

hampshire schrieb:

I see it the same way with smart homes, and additionally: in 30 years, everyone will simply have one, and no one will be able to imagine how it was without. Twenty years ago, people laughed at online shopping saying “I don’t need that,” and someone with a mobile phone was still considered a “show-off” 25 years ago...

… Going with the flow doesn’t make it any better, though. It’s no coincidence that digital detox seminars for private life are being offered and personal challenges to abstain from Facebook/Instagram/TikTok/Twitter/Telegram for a year are being undertaken.
If it weren’t for COVID-19 and the necessary QR code, many would gladly leave their phones at home again from time to time. The vaccine refusers or those who claim “they’re all lying” among us are mostly streamers who only watch what they choose and never follow randomly aired documentaries.
Work-related messenger apps wake you up at 1 a.m. with “urgent” messages.
Not only I am annoyed by people talking into their phones in public spaces as if they were alone. Pedestrians no longer notice anything around them when crossing streets.
So, it’s not all advantages.
Online shopping used to be called mail order. Amazon didn’t invent mail order 😉
In my old house, I had an astronomical timer for the roller shutters; we ended up turning them all off because we felt like we were subordinating ourselves to the house.
For what was shown in the film, I am also partly too impatient. By the time the door opens, I feel like I’ve already been through twice :p
And no: I am not against digitalization or technology – you just have to consider whether you really need “all that” (just because everyone has or wants it or because it’s new) or only something a bit personalized.

ypg schrieb:

While the door is opening, it feels like I’ve already gone through twice

In the film, many things are due to design. The doors are like that because the designer/house owner/ whoever chose to forgo handles for reasons unknown to us.

Hence the necessity to "open door." Whether that is actually much better, well, I’m not sure. But you don’t need to worry about someone pushing the door open. The drives in these doors are usually self-locking. So a certain level of security is actually included. And yes, of course, there must be a way to open the door from the inside in an emergency. As we learned from the film, opening it from outside is only possible if the technician is present.

ypg schrieb:

… Going along with the crowd doesn’t actually make things better.

Simply following along rarely improves anything. Often, it stops critical thinking. Yet, the future is shaped in the mind.

ypg schrieb:

And no: I am not against digitalization or technology – you just have to consider whether you really need “all of it” (just because everyone has it/wants it or it’s new) or only a bit of customization.

I am a strong supporter of digitalization and automation. It is undeniable that digitalization and automation hold enormous efficiency reserves. We need these efficiency reserves in how we manage resources. It is also undeniable that digitalization and automation can have downsides. I am a big fan of technological progress and work with it professionally. If my wife and I were 30 years old, we would fully embrace smart technology. Growing up with digital devices and with an intuitive understanding of software and menu navigation, we would have no particular questions about it. We would accept updates and upgrades with complete naturalness. We are in our early 50s and have built a house we want to still understand clearly when we are 80. Older people often return to what they knew as children. The future can also be shaped by oneself.

Mycraft schrieb:

In the film, many design choices are obvious. The doors look that way because the designer/homeowner/ whoever decided to avoid using handles for reasons unknown to us.

Yes, a lot of it looked really great!

The doors without handles remind me of something: A friend of mine got stuck for a few hours in the elevator between the garage and the kitchen in his new house, together with his rather unfriendly mother-in-law. We still laugh about it to this day. It was well worth it just for the good times that came from that story 😀 .

Yes, that's how it is, no matter how much you invest in technology. In the end, you need a manual emergency opening.

@ypg

Yes, the house design was quite appealing, although I do wonder what the film crew was thinking installing a TV leaning against the wall, right in the middle of the way.