When you look outside the window of your home, you always see the same landscape. Whether you are in an apartment in a big city, or a farmhouse in the rolling countryside, your view does not vary very much.
One of the pleasures of going to other places is the chance to experience different landscapes. We may take our own neighborhood for granted, but we tend to see fresh vistas with fresh eyes.
There will come a point when augmented reality will allow us to choose the view out of our window. One day we may see a bustling New York City street, and the next day we may look out upon the beautiful rolling hills of western Missouri.
This idea that the view outside your window is fixed is merely a technological limitation. Some years down the road that limitation will no longer exist.
When that happens, people may wonder that folks had no way to choose the view outside their window. “Didn’t it drive them crazy,” they might ask, “to look out upon the same view day after day after day?”
In places with seasons, (particularly non-urban ones) I can imagine the view out the window changing substantially throughout the year.
Here in California, not so much.
You can have a changing view now. There are quite a few houseboats on the canal near here. Some of them are even seaworthy and can move around the country.
I remember working at a factory which actually had a number of seasonal workers who moored up outside the factory and worked there during the winter, then set off round the country during the summer months.
I like that: Changing the view outside your window the old fashioned way — by moving your window around the world!!!