Catalina Ju stood in front of the 270-degree panoramic floor-to-ceiling window, her fingertips ran across the three-dimensional house plan on the tablet, and the dim light from the screen illuminated her angular profile. As the chief smart home scene architect of Stardome Design, she had just finished a three-hour transoceanic video conference. Opposite her was the owner of a private estate on the Palm Island in Dubai—a Middle Eastern rich man who wanted to "make technology invisible in nature."