Although many people expect garage doors to stay relatively the same for the forseeable future, it's interesting to think about where they came from.
We've actually already traveled quite a long distance from where these things originally started. If you really take the time to stop and think about it, garage doors were originally mostly like barn doors, means to keep livestock in a shed or barn or stable of some sort. Then they developed into the kind of doors that would allow carriage to pass through. Because mostly rich people owned carriages, they were designed to be able to be opened by servants and the like, not by a single person. When carriages became more widespread and non ruling class families had them, the third party aspect of them began to dwindle away, until they were designed to be able to open easily with one person.
Since then we have introduced a bunch of different materials. Since the onset of widespread automobile ownership, garage doors have developed form wooden things into vinyl, aluminum, steel, and poly blend materials. Now they come in all sorts of styles and designs.
If we look at how fiction creators have imagines the future, we might expect garage doors to start being made out of intricate metal workings or pure glass. There seems to be an aesthetic in the imagined future that everything is made out of strong, non-pliable materials like steel and glass. This may turn out to be the truth, but I actually expect that more poly blend materials will be created, like biphasic alloys made not only of metal but plastics and other polymers as well.
We will see!
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