`Housekeeping hereafter': the preservation of domesticity in a technological utopia.(Biography)
From: Utopian Studies
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Date: 3/22/2002
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Author: Hardy, Robert
IN THE SEPTEMBER 1881 ISSUE of The Atlantic Monthly, a writer named J.V. Sears contributed an essay titled "Housekeeping Hereafter," in which he presented a futuristic vision of the American household. In his vision, individual households would be connected through a system of pneumatic tubes to a central "domestic depot." Orders for household goods could be placed to the domestic depot by telephone (a recent invention in 1881) and shipped almost instantly via pneumatic dispatch. ...
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