Source: The Daily Economy
by Daniel J Hugger
“James Pethokoukis wants the future back. The 1960s future he was promised as a child. The future of Star Trek: The Original Series, The Jetsons, and Walt Disney’s EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney promised that EPCOT ‘will never be completed but will always be introducing and testing, and demonstrating new materials and new systems.’ The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised urges us to boldly go, in our flying cars, to the world of tomorrow. But why is it, nearly sixty years after the community of tomorrow was imagined, that we are still not there? Pethokoukis offers readers an interesting array of answers and presses throughout, ‘Faster please!'” (11/19/24)