An excerpt from the 1958 "Disneyland" TV Show episode entitled "Magic Highway USA". In this last part of the show, an exploration into possible 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.
It's a real shame how any kind of relly interesting work in this space is totally dead. Personal rapid transit? Forget it! The problem these days isn't a lack of technology, it's a lack of imagination on the part of the people in a position to set a new course!
As Lewis Black said, "The millenium sucks! No flying cars, no flying cars!"
