Next door in building B is the House of the Future Exhibition, which hosts some unusual shows for kids.
Consider Disneyland's Monsanto (nyse: MON - news - people ) House of the Future, built in the mid 1950s.
Consider Disneyland's Monsanto House of the Future, built in the mid 1950s.
"We build our new technology edifices on the rubble of older technology, " says Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley technology forecaster who relishes telling the story of Disney's ill-fated house of the future and other now neglected technologies.
Just as the price of a share should equal the discounted present value of future profits, so the price of a house should reflect the future benefits of ownership either rental income or the implicit rent saved by an owner-occupier.
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Just as the price of a share should equal the discounted present value of future dividends, so the price of a house should reflect the future benefits of ownership, either as rental income for an investor or the rent saved by an owner-occupier.
Just as the value of a company's shares should equal the discounted present value of its future profits, so the price of a house should reflect the future benefits of ownership, either as rental income or in the rent saved by an owner-occupier.
However, with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives in 2011, the future of Dodd-Frank may be uncertain.
MPs in the House of Commons debated on the future of British skilled defence jobs on Thursday.
On January 20th, it published a white paper on the future of the House of Lords which admitted that the Law Lords' membership of the upper house was an anomaly, but shied away from proposing any alternative.
President Barack Obama has welcomed his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, to the White House to discuss the future role of the US in Afghanistan.
This was "over-optimistic" about the future of house prices, even compared to forecasts available at the time, as it suggested that there would be a 5% fall in house prices in 2008.
Tuesday morning, the House Financial Services Committee holds a hearing on the future of financial services regulation.
He has suggested many Lib Dem MPs would find it "hard to swallow" proposed changes to Commons constituency boundaries in 2015 - thought to favour Conservative chances of getting a future majority - if changes to the House of Lords do not proceed.
Thanks to congressional redistricting, Republicans were able to hold on to the House of Representatives, and Cook said that the Party could probably keep it for the foreseeable future, but he warned that the prospects of winning back the Senate, and the White House, would require dramatic change.
This would have limited the time for future debate on the proposed changes in the House of Commons to 10 days.
And if Bush doesn't run, there's the chance we could see a future White House bid from the next generation of the Bush family.
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Epstein, who was the editorial director at Random House for 40 years, says the machine embodies the future of publishing.
In any case, few believe the House bill has much of a future.
Now that some Republicans have begun to share those views, the future of the House probe is in doubt.
So on Wednesday, executives from six of the biggest U.S. telcos appeared before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to argue that no less than the future of American innovation, economic health and public safety depend on their mergers going through.
Last night, I was one of about 40 people at the home of former U.S. Rep. Jane Harman where I was thrilled to hear four former White House Chiefs of Staff and other political luminaries discuss the future of our country.
The Senate also rejected an amendment that would outright ban naked credit default swaps, which basically are a bet on the future creditworthiness of a company or debt issuer. (The House version of financial reform did ban naked credit default swaps).
"I return thanks to Almighty God that I have been spared this time to see the progress of this house, to see the progress in Northern Ireland, and to see the future that we can have if we all dedicate ourselves to work for the better good of everyone in this land, " he told MLAs.
After all, if uncertainty were the primary culprit, the right solution would be to cut a long-term budget deal with the White House, even at the cost of higher taxes on the wealthy, to remove uncertainty about future tax rates.
Interestingly, the Backbench Business Committee is going to hold a debate - on December 5th - on the suggestion that future breaches of the protocol requiring policy announcements to be made to the House should result in punishment being meted out by Mr Speaker or, in more serious cases, by the Standards and Privileges Committee.
Visitors will get a glimpse into the home of the future in a Sharp smart house composed of proprietary see-through solar modules set up as a symbolic structure of the booth.
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The impact could be larger, he accepts, if the new homes were directed to the areas where housing shortages are most acute and if the programme dampened expectations of future house-price increases.
Mr Goodhart argues, therefore, that a rise in the price of a house (a claim on future housing services) or a share (a claim on future dividends) should be counted as inflation, just as much as a rise in the prices of carrots or cars.
Mr Guillaume has plans to build some kind of temporary school house, but without money the children's future remains bleak.
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