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I. WAS. PROMISED. FLYING. CARS!

zarq — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:35:08 -0800

PopSci: Archive Gallery: From Chicago to Shanghai, 138 Visionary Years of World's Fairs

Direct links to the articles: * Electricity Lights Up the World's Columbian Exposition: October 1893 * Rocket Cars at the Chicago World's Fair: September 1932 * PopSci's Mechanical Wonderland: August 1933 * Giant Volt Generator Electrifies Paris: November 1936 * New York Welcomes the World of Tomorrow: March 1938 * Flushing Meadows Enters the Future: March 1939 * General Motors Presents Futurama: July 1939 * A Permanent Fair in Florida?: April 1955 * Seattle Surveys the Year 2000: April 1962 * IBM's "Information Machine": July 1964 * The Geodesic Biosphere: March 1967 * Discovering Seville: May 1992

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:35:55 -0800

It's a neat set of archived articles. But I don't quite see how 1893-1992 = 138 years.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:47:57 -0800

I think zarq is going for some kind of all time metafilter poster award. Keep up the good work, sir.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:50:04 -0800

It's so funny that they thought we'd only get air cars by the year 2000. I remember being taken for my first ride in one back in 1982.

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:56:53 -0800

Keep up the good work, sir. Thanks. :) I must find the free time to read the rest of those magazines online. The ads alone look fascinating.

By: UseyurBrain

UseyurBrain — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:42:17 -0800

It was at the 1982 Worlds Fair that I saw fiber optics, lasers and touch screen computers for the first time. It was one of the most attended worlds fairs ever.