In 1958 “Disneyland” TV Show episode entitled “Magic Highway USA” an exploration into possible “their” future Transportation technologies is made.
It’s hard to believe how little we’ve accomplished on this front since 1958, and how limited the scope for imagining such future technologies has become. Witness an artifact from a time where the future was greeted with optimism. Note the striking animation style here, achieved with fairly limited animation and spectacular layouts:
Very very interesting.
Wven now, in 21st century, we could not have thought about half of this!
Disney rocks! But now I know it actually rocked way more in 1958
This is never going to be possible.
People are too cruel.
Well, maddog, actually this IS already happening. Check this out:
“Russia plans $65bn tunnel to America”:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1680121.ece
I love stuff like this! We all had quite the imagination in the 50′s….
I can’t see the video. You’ve piqued my curiosity. I love futuristic stuff. Keil, thanks for the link to the Russia tunnel article. That was really cool.
here is the video