Editing House (section)

===19th and 20th centuries===
[[File:Doctor's residence and surgery, No 8 Milford Ave, Randwick taken for LJ Hooker Ltd by Sam Hood, 17 July 1951. Sourced from the State Library of New South Wales Home and Away 11690 FL1472550.jpg|thumb|Doctor's residence and surgery, No 8 Milford Ave, [[Randwick, New South Wales, Australia]]]] In the American context, some professions, such as doctors, in the 19th and early 20th centuries typically operated out of the front room or parlor or had a two-room office on their property, which was detached from the house. By the mid 20th century, the increase in high-tech equipment created a marked shift whereby the contemporary doctor typically worked from an [[Doctor's office|office]] or [[hospital]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Doctor's and Dentist's Offices |url=https://melnickmedicalmuseum.com/exhibits/doctors-and-dentists-offices/ |website=Melnick Medical Museum |date=January 29, 2009 |access-date=12 June 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://search.sl.nsw.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ADLIB110007768&context=L&vid=SLNSW&search_scope=E&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US "Doctor's residence and surgery, No 8 Milford Ave, Randwick, New South Wales, photograph taken by Sam Hood for LJ Hooker"], [[State Library of New South Wales]], Home and Away 11690, FL1472550, 1951. Retrieved 14 November 2018.</ref>
 
[[Technology]] and electronic systems have caused privacy issues and issues with segregating personal life from [[remote work]]. Technological advances in [[surveillance]] and [[Internet|communications]] allow insight into personal habits and private lives.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> As a result, the "private becomes ever more public, [and] the desire for a protective home life increases, fuelled by the very media that undermine it," writes [[Jonathan Hill (architect)|Jonathan Hill]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Work has been altered by the increase of communications. The "deluge of information"<ref name="ReferenceA"/> has expressed the efforts of work conveniently gaining access inside the house. Although commuting is reduced, the desire to separate working and living remains apparent.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> On the other hand, some architects have designed homes in which eating, working and living are brought together.