Thanks for the link TS. I did enjoy the Boeing Blurb. Such as this bit from the Lighting, page. Innovative Lighting: The 787 Dreamliner helps keep you in the zone. The possibilities of that are endless, especially if this thread were in JB!!
In this site that is full of their future dreams, I notice that they stick to the tried and trusted method of showing features (such as the windows) in the Biz cabin ...
But to the point - the windows look clever and pleasantly large ... which will let in even more light and cause the CC to disapprove even faster! With the old fashioned blinds, you can lift up a small section to peek (or split them in the middle if they are the double blind kind) but with this, the electronic opening effect will be of the whole panel. If you want to look out to clearly see the outside world - then you would want to have it completely 'open' and that will bring in MORE light than at present.
Which means that I shall still be sitting with a blanket over my head!!
I think that pacer142's idea of Light and Dark cabins is very good and sensible. Boeing say (in the referenced site) that changing the lighting is to help adjust to the new time zone and reduce jet lag. Well, that is all fine and dandy but some of us do not sleep in conventional patterns and would prefer to deal with jet lag in our own way, thank you very much.