Disney has to be the most wasteful companies on this planet! For them to call this a dream home of the future is absurd. The wast in electricity alone with all those electronic gadgets is appalling. You'd think they would have incorporated a self sustaining structure into the design. Where are the solar panels on the roof? Where are the wind turbines? What about recycling water systems? So they used a recycled back splash, big deal. Come on Disney it's time to be responsible for your actions and show people that the way of the future is self sustainability by using natural resources!

Ugly?
It's just a modern twist of the average American taste of style..

Good god that is awful. They couldn't come up with something better than that?? That looks like its from the year 2009. First of all.. the only person i know with a digital picture frame is my GRANDMA. They're tacky and defeat the purpose of a picture frame. Those suckas are out. the computer on the counter is huge... this home sucks up so much electricity too and obviously.. the future is in less electricity usage and more eco friendly stuff. all they did was make stupid looking countertops and say that was the future. what about touch screen fridge and oven?? it looks like someone's plan to redo their house next year. so sad.

Weird, I've seen homes on Cribs that looked more futuristic and interesting than this one.

This house isn't about challenging current ideas or presenting the public with anything significantly new and innovative. It's about giving Americans what they want.

In 1957, the future was cool. Everybody was looking forward to it. From flying cars to vacations on the moon, everything was possible and Americans wanted to be told about all of the fantastic, futuristic stuff they could enjoy in the not-too-distant future.

After 50 years, I think that we're no longer so easily enticed by revolutionary ideas. After all, we've been living in the "future" for decades now, and it ain't so great. We're in the 21st century, for God's sake, and we're still wrestling pointlessly with the same social and economic problems we were at the close of WWII. There's nothing to look forward to except sitting on your couch with a beer, a take-out pizza, and watching TV.

War, hunger, disease, poverty... Of all the myriad problems we're facing, this fancy, new Disney house solves nothing. It proposes nothing for the future, just for when you get home from work.

And if you have enough scratch, you can live in it now. After all, who wants to wait for the future, anymore.

On the other hand the best way to get folks to give some consideration to new tech is to show them the tech in the context of their normal homes.

ALOT of people I know who are not very techy would never consider anything too forward thinking unless it did not stand out from the stuff that their friends, neighbors and family already had. These three wheel cars, aeroplane looking rides and dome houses might be very forward thinking but they have limited appeal to average folks.

What I want is an EV that looks like a normal VW Golf, a house with solar incorporated into the roof, and other energy improvements that are invisible. And less tech. No Microsoft on the premises. No touch screens for the lighting, no computers in the kitchen, nor refridgerators with internet acess. If anything I want two Linux-powered Nokia N810 with the capability to control all the A/V and lighting throughout the house. One for me, one for my wife. Normal wall controls throughout the house.

Right now I have a 17 year old AV setup that does everything and then some mated with our PC but has wires and enough complexity to make anybody but us wrinkle their foreheads.

I think there is a pervasive disconnect between extremely wealthy people/companies/entities and the realities of life. How else could the leaders of our country be "stuck on stupid" for so many precious years, years when many other countries especially in Europe have seen the future and have made positive changes to face the future. If ever there was a time for Disney to come out with a green home that is energy independent, uses non toxic materials, non petroleum based materials and illustrates what life needs to be like in the 21st century now is that time and that opportunity. What they show us is how out of date and out of touch they are. This project should have been re-thunk even if that meant aborting the project before completion. My reaction to seeing this house is discouragement and in a twisted way I find it comical rather than having the "this is neat" feeling the old house gave. It just shows the consumer how very out of touch Disney is to real life/real concerns.

oh no! that is ugly. the second picture actually looks like a room in a funeral home.

what were they thinking?

Could not be less inspired or contemporary if it tried.
They do get points for having "Dad" weigh in at over 300.

Shouldn't the house of the future have some sort of exercise/energy generation equipment?

The future certainly will lie in cleaner and more efficient energy usage, but not necessarily less. Many of the things we don't consider energy usage today will require more energy inputs in the future: we will be using energy for our water, to make our fertilizers, etc. Nature won't be doing these things for us anymore, and we'll have to do them ourselves.
I am disappointed by the apparent lack of vision in this home. I have a digital picture frame, and I like it precisely because I only need one. Same goes for a host of other electronic devices. Miniaturization= putting many things in a small space. That means large spaces are just that much more versatile, and can be made far cooler than what is presented here. Remember, this is intended as a dream home of the future, not a typical home of the future. The rich will presumably always live in more space than the rest of us.

The worst thing must be that faucet, springing out of the counter like an snake.

Where is my on-command digital SexBot?! House of the future, my ass.

Ugh, heinous! This looks like the design for a re-imagined DisneyLand Haunted Mansion, more than any place a real human would want to live. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer the future how it used to be -- all modular with bright colors and rounded edges.

I like the idea of new and neat electronic gadgets in the future, but I agree about the digital photo frames. One or two is good enough, but ELEVEN? Ok, that's just idiotic. The photos play in a slideshow anyway, so you'll eventually see them all if the frames have enough storage.

I was also thinking of a future with more all-in-one gadgets, rather than tons of electronics doing separate simple functions.

Instead, they should

(didn't finish, sorry)...have shown a more green dwelling for a family-sized structure, and show how technology, design, and living can all mix.

I admit, the house is kinda ugly. I mean whoever designed the sets wasn't really looking for a good theme or consistency. Some parts are modern, some parts look 50's-ish, and who knows what.

My dream home is 100% off grid, solar hot water, solar photo voltaic and rain water collection.

One day I hope to dream with my eyes open.

Where is the energy going to come from to run this?

"The design celebrates the inventive thinking and optimism of both yesterday and today"

Well, the investors should take a long, hard look at Disney's CSR report and ask where they will get the energy for this house. Is this real? I mean, is it up and running? Ask about the gas bill, the electricity bill, and let them explain how this is anyone's dream home.

Maybe it comes with your own, private little nuclear reactor? Or else, I'd say will be pretty gloomy to live in, if you forget to pay your bills. There is nothing "optimistic" about a design that has no sense of reality.

Not a single window pictured. Who needs sunlight when you have a huge-ass plasma, I guess?

I want to be the guy who gets called to repair this stuff, at $100 a house call plus $75 for each additional 30 minutes per call.

[Digital picture frames are] tacky and defeat the purpose of a picture frame.

Let's see: 1 digital picture frame that can display hundreds of images or pounds of dead trees with toxic chemicals on them sitting in a closet, never to be seen again. Which is more treehugger?

As for the house, it's ridiculous. I, personally, like the color choices, but have no need for 5000 square feet. Who's going to clean it all?

My house of the future looks a lot like the one I'm in now, but with a geothermal heat pump, solar hot water and electricity, and maybe a heat-and-power cogenerator in the basement. I'm already within walking and biking distance of just about everything I need.