Welcome to the future

The idea is to have our homes provide more than just shelter and a place to store our things. Most of us will spend nearly a third of our life paying an exraneous amount of money for a house. For this kind of commitment I would like to think we would get more than a warm box. New solar technology has shown us that our boxes can produce energy. What if we expanded on this idea and turned our box into a machine to provide our essential needs as humans: gather and store water, produce food all year round, charge an electric vehicle for transportation use, a place to conduct proffesionsal business, energy/heat.