After reading an interesting post on io9.com about an oddly misguided bit of courtroom futurism, I decided that I needed to rinse my mouth out with some equally poor futurism from a simpler time. The video, entitled “Magic Highway USA” is a 1958 masterpiece of technological propaganda from our good friends at the Walt Disney Company. I have to admit that as a kid I was glued to the television whenever one of these Disney science shorts popped up. Uncle Walt took me to Mars, the depths of the ocean and in to the mud pits of prehistory. Follow that man to hell and back I would! But in all seriousness, I wish someone was producing more futurism geared toward children. This new generation is very technologically savvy, but I’m not sold on if they’re as adventurous in their approach to technology.
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