A Great American Idea

So, I was struck with a great idea today. I think someone needs to start a company building upsacle homes. These homes would be like most nice homes, in most aspects. There would be one special thing about these homes, however. They would have windows that looked just like normal windows from the inside, but instead of glass looking on the outside, they would have High Definition LCD screens. Just think, you'd no longer be limited to living within your climate and geographical limits. Today, you want a beautiful sunny day next to a mountain range, just click the remote and there you have your landscape, right outside (or I guess you might say inside) your windows. Or perhaps it feels like it should be a rainy day to cuddle up next to the fireplace in your lakeside home. Once again, a few clicks and you're living in your desired paradise.

Of course, this doesn't have to limited to entire homes and new builds. Perhaps you could jsut add a room in this style as a remodel/addition to already existing homes. There could also be an entire spin off economy of creating various landscapes for your LCD windows. You could buy them as DVDs or DVD-ROMs. Or you could have the entire system connected to the internet, and folks could just download various landscapes and weather, etc.

I think you get the idea of what an incredible industry this could be. Of course, if you know me, you might also get the sarcasm with which I propose such an idea. Let's replace all of the windows in our homes with false windows, so that we can control what we see out our windows. Can you get more ridiculously wasteful and out of touch? The scary part is that I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing sold like wildfire. Heck, for all I know, someone is already doing it. I didn't do any research on that--I'm scared of what I would find. It's a perfect American idea. It involves having more control, which Americans love. Heck, not having windows would allow you to make your home a complete fortress, like a bomb shelter. How great! It's technology, and Americans love technology, especially if it's something that none of their neighbors have and therefore they can show off. Basically it's the kind of self-centered, wasteful, misuse of technology and energy that Americans love. Perhaps what the worst thing about this kind of idea is how disconnecting it is. Yes, you might gain control of whether you felt like having a mountain or a lake, rain, snow or shine outside your window, but that having that control means losing touch with what is actually outside your window. It also means isolating yourself from your neighbors. Who wants to live next to a house with no windows? That would seriously creep me out.

So anyways, that's what was running through my head this morning. Until later . . .