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June 17, 2008

Disneyland's 'House Of The Future' Re-Opens

Disneyland is opening its rebooted "House of the Future" in Tomorrowland, and yesterday's PI had an article ("This Dream Home comes with a Mouse") about what we can expect - and one of the Microsofties who's been working on it:

The Dream Home is a modern-day sequel to the Monsanto House of the Future, a Disneyland attraction from 1957 to 1967. The new Dream Home project, in Disneyland's Tomorrowland, includes some futuristic technology concepts, like its predecessor.

But the companies made a conscious decision to focus more on technological capabilities that are possible today, though not widely used.

"It's real. This isn't science fiction, and it's not pure extrapolation," Cluts said last week. "You can integrate much of what you see here now."

I find it interesting - but not surprising - that they're using some of the concepts I saw during my Microsoft Home tour earlier this year. I'm curious to see what they've cooked up in Innoventions - and to see if they can keep it fresh in 2009, 2010, and beyond.

Posted by Gavin Shearer at June 17, 2008 7:40 AM. Posted to Disney.

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