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‘Predictions that the 1964 World’s Fair got right… and what it got very wrong’

April 15, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

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The Futurama 2 ride at the fair was sponsored by General Motors and presented a possible vision of the world 60 years into the future.

Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, it showcased it included scenes of colonies on the moon as well as in Antarctica, huge underwater dwellings, moving sidewalks,  computer-guided cars zipping along congestion-free highways and a machine that used a laser to cut through rainforests, leaving behind paved roads.

The vision even had undersea vacationing with holidaymakers taking a break at Hotel Atlantis deep in the sea.

It also had jet packs, demonstrated by men who wore them and zoomed around the grounds, but which remain a mode of transport found primarily in science fiction.

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