We are now all used to the fact that Google Street View provides a digital double of our physical world. On your computer, you can now wander down many streets in American cities and suburbs.
Eventually such digital doubles will start showing up at home. At night a small drone will scan your house and update a digital representation of every room. By day you will use that representation for many purposes.
Of course there will be important privacy issues to work out here, but there will also be large paradigm changes in your relationship with where you live. The representation of your home will be processed by AI, which will keep an updated model of the state of everything.
If you are running low on bananas or shampoo or coffee, your AI will know that. And eventually, robots will be able to do something about it.
If you’d like, your AI will order you new bananas, and a robot will put them in your favorite place in the kitchen. And when you are running low on clean clothes, a robot will do your laundry, and then neatly fold and put away the clean clothes.
I don’t know about you, but I, for one, am looking forward robots doing my laundry.