80 years from now, eh? I have a feeling what my apartment will need will be life support...

Actually, that's an idea, come to think of it - a Personal Diagnostic Scanner, used to keep track of your health and vital statistics. What with medical services at an incresing premium (in both senses), anything that could be automated (like cholesterol checks, blood-pressure monitoring, weight tracking, etc.) should be. It could even be built into a bed, if that isn't too intrusive for folks to accept. Every apartment should have one.

Air filters should be in there too... even if in the future we manage to roll back air pollution, it'd be nice to filter out all those allergens.

A lot really demands on the kind of future we're talking about. Corporate-controlled, as most cyberpunk? Figure on apartments either very small or very large, the common-man type being plastic-like and modular, with cheap add-ons being the general rule. Idealistic, a la Star Trek? All the gizmos and gadgets here discussed, and a few nice houseplants. :) Etc.

Message edited on: 10/22/2005 22:38