Cyberspace gets domestic

"A comprehensive showcase of art and technology" called Cyberhome 2000 opened yesterday evening at the Blasthaus Gallery in San Francisco. ComputerLife magazine and Intel have sponsored the transformation of the gallery into the high-tech home of the future--as seen by Intel, IBM, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard. (Intel is an investor in CNET: The Computer Network.)

Artist Adam Savage and architect Dan Corr included futuristic technology adhering to a "form follows function" maxim.

Blasthaus is at 217 Second Street; the show runs through May 18.

Jeff Enos, associate features editor for ComputerLife, wears virtual reality entertainment goggles by Forte.

Michael Penwarden, ComputerLife's executive editor, sits in an old-fashioned dentist chair at a PC desk of the future, using an email system that sends picture postcards.