Magic Highway USA, 1958

[GMTruckGuy74]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA

You got to check this out... very interesting in a Jetson's kind of way. Too bad the "future" wasn't even a third of what this Disney movie predicted.

[Drew Dowdell]

It is actually rather amazing how much of that really came true or is on the verge of coming true.

[David]

That was freakin awesome. Amazing how much did happen and what is still dreamed about. The roads have truly lagged behind, but the auto is working hard to match from self driving carts to rear facing cameras. It was great to watch.

[Camino LS6]

So very 50s.

"Magic Highway" took on another meaning in the very next decade...

[PurdueGuy]

Some stuff has come true, or is coming true. Some stuff is still futuristic. Other stuff is just silly and ill-conceived to begin with. It's a video about capturing the imagination, not about 100% accurately predicting the future based on any actual science or technology.

I had to laugh at the punch cards guiding people to vacation destinations. They'd be blown away by modern smartphones with GPS. I could see QR codes bringing up a map on the GPS to achieve the same thing as they proposed with their punch card.