The 20th century offered many visions of domestic life, from the mechanised home to the notion that technology might free us from it altogether. This book explores different attitudes toward the home, tracing its evolution as a site of endless invention. It proposes that we are living in yesterday's tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted.

Eszter Steierhoffer is Senior Curator at the Design Museum and editor, among other books, of Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution (Design Museum Publishing, 2017).

Justin McGuirk is a writer and Chief Curator at the Design Museum, formerly the design columnist for the Guardian, and editor of Icon magazine.

Marcus Engman is Head of Design at IKEA.

Deyan Sudjic is a British writer, founder of Blueprint Magazine, former editor for Domus, former design and architecture critic for The Observer, an author published by imprints such as Penguin and Phaidon, and currently Director of the Design Museum in London.

Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect, author and founder of DOGMA.

Jing Liu is an architect, educator and co-founder of the award-winning design firm SO- IL in New York City.

Adam Greenfield is a writer and Managing Director of Urbanscale.

Sarah Kember is a writer and Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Barry Curtis is a writer and Tutor in Critical and historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, London.

Emilio Ambasz is an architect, award-winning industrial designer, and, from 1969 to 1976, Curator of Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.