World of Tomorrow
I remember my first time learning of the 1939 World’s Fair. I must have been 8 years old at the time, and my mother had taken my brother and I to a museum close to Flushing Meadows where the fair had taken place.
Not much was left from the 1939 World’s Fair, just the base of the Perisphere which was repurposed by the 1964 World’s Fair for the Unisphere monument. But a flickering video is my most vivid memory of this experience. It projected all of the wonderful benefits of future technology (circa 1939 of course) and how our lives would be changed. Television, flying cars and robots abounded the expositions. It started a fascination about those ideals, of which I still rememeber now.
But what every happened to that utopian vision outlined by the 1939 World’s Fair? What about the progress? The technological innovations that were to free us of our problems?
“I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE”
Pin given to visitors at the GM Pavillion featuring the “Futurama” exhibit