The superstructure: Designing for high-tech: The high-tech house is hardly passive; its heating, security, communications, and lighting systems function independently, yet talk with one another at the command of computers

When John Holder goes away for a winter weekend, he doesn't ask a neighbor to take care of his house in Midland, Mich. The house takes care of itself. If someone should break into his home on Friday evening, a booming synthesized voice will confront the burglar, telling him that he has been detected and that the police, automatically summoned, are on their way.