I just attended a conference on the future of homebuilding. You're going to see much higher energy efficiency requirements, air quality regulations, and green energy. Other countries are already ahead of us on most of this stuff. Insulation requirements is probably the first major change that will happen. Canada already has much higher R-value requirements than the US, and I assume we'll follow suit in the next 12 years, or so. With that high R-value comes the need to protect against mold and fungus, so indoor air quality regulations will have to drastically change. US appliance regulations are also outdated and need to catch up to the rest of the world. You're starting to see that now with the heat pump credits in the Inflation Reduction Act.

I'm a robotics and automation instructor, and I don't think you're going to see any type of robotic ovens or anything like that, but we will definitely see more automation on the energy efficiency side of things. Things like occupancy sensors for lighting and HVAC, more scheduling of energy consumption, sensors on appliances to optimize their use, things like that. Automation of tasks like cooking are tough, but automation of the simplest things, like turning off a lighswitch, or closing the blinds at night, are easy and I think we'll see more of those tasks automated