A spokesperson says---
"...Over the course of the 20th century, Americans were offered an astonishing array of domestic tomorrows: self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, pushbutton appliances, and desktop computers all shaping aspirations about how to live.... The exhibition asks not only what futures were imagined, but also who imagined them, how they circulated, and for whom they were intended."
"The American home of the future was always elsewhere, just over the horizon.... That restless forward motion, powered by the conviction that tomorrow’s design would solve today’s problems, is itself quintessentially American. The objects, images, and houses brought together in Home of the Future remind us that every utopia is a mirror, reflecting our dreams as well as our blind spots, our values, and our willingness to imagine and to exclude in equal measure..."
