By Futurist Thomas Frey
Buildings That Feel You Coming
Your house will know you’re having a bad day before you walk through the door. Not because you told it, but because it watched how you walked up the driveway.
By 2035, homes equipped with gait recognition systems will analyze your stride, posture, and movement patterns to assess your emotional state with startling accuracy. Are you walking slowly with slumped shoulders? The system registers stress or sadness. Quick, sharp movements? It detects agitation or anxiety. Your gait reveals emotional states you might not even consciously recognize yet.
As you reach the door, facial micro-analysis scans the tiny muscular movements around your eyes and mouth—the involuntary expressions that leak through before you compose your face into socially acceptable neutrality. Combined with historical data about your patterns—what time you usually arrive, how your meetings went based on calendar analysis, how you’ve responded to similar situations previously—the house builds a comprehensive emotional profile in the seconds before you enter.
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