Watching this tribute to the PeopleMover got me to wondering where the disconnect was between the confident assertions that we were riding the "transportation of tomorrow today" and the reality which has come to be.
Was this just hype to make the attraction more appealing, or did the engineers at WED and Goodyear really believe that a ride system of individually-powered tires underneath a motorless vehicle would show up in airports and shopping centers everywhere? Did they go around marketing this concept? Is it in fact in use in many places outside DL?
I find myself wondering why so many TL-style predictions of the future never materialize, besides the obvious explanation that the people making the predictions were only thinking of what was possible and not what was feasible.
Was this just hype to make the attraction more appealing, or did the engineers at WED and Goodyear really believe that a ride system of individually-powered tires underneath a motorless vehicle would show up in airports and shopping centers everywhere? Did they go around marketing this concept? Is it in fact in use in many places outside DL?
I find myself wondering why so many TL-style predictions of the future never materialize, besides the obvious explanation that the people making the predictions were only thinking of what was possible and not what was feasible.
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