Disney had some really weird ideas about the future. However they do talk about GPS and teleconferencing. Which is a little creepy...
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Dec. 10, 2009 10:02 p.m. Drewsifer Reader
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Dec. 10, 2009 10:36 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
definatly had a "utopian" feel to it... but yesterday's fantasies are often tomarrow's fact. Though I doubt we will ever see an atomic power tunnel borer that literally melts the rock out of the way
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Dec. 10, 2009 10:39 p.m. oldsaw HalfDork
Cool retro animation!
If you think those ideas are creepy, they also envisioned heads-up displays, rear-view cameras, airborne emergency services, cantilevered roadways, moving sidewalks, automatic guidance systems co-ordinated with embedded roadways (eliminating driver input), the Chunnel, etc, etc.
I think we'll be waiting a while for the ceramic bridges, air-conditioned tubular highways and rotating roads.
The atomic reactor tunneling device, melting rock as it bores its' way to fantasy-land - probably not.
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Dec. 10, 2009 10:44 p.m. zipty842 New Reader
OSHA be damned!
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Dec. 11, 2009 12:14 a.m. HappyAndy HalfDork
I once heard that Walt himself was behind alot of the futurist ideas.
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Dec. 11, 2009 9:42 p.m. Drewsifer Reader
You mean, the atomic rock melter isn't real? That was the only thing I believed! Well that and the self building roads and bridges.
