The list of corporate partners is growing. Occupants will follow later. But it's not by any means a traditional house. And, in the tradition of Buckminster Fuller, they're also trying to achieve eventual affordability through mass production of components, if not an entire house. It's just not enough to drive a revolution in technology used in the home.
People are pretty happy staring at their TVs the way they are.
That's not going to do it. If you can figure out a way to improve people's lives in some fundamental way, then you've got something. The Green House Drive a hundred miles north of New York City, up the Hudson River Valley to Stone Ridge, N.Y., and you'll find the rural refuge where environmental architect Michael McDonough is escaping to a dwelling of the future. The house is designed to use less energy in part by being linked to the Web. McDonough is widely known in architectural circles.