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...1950s and 1960s, in the pages of Popular Mechanics and Life magazine, The Future was characterized as a time when smiling housewives didn't have to worry about doing the housework because their robots would do the work for them. The Donna Reeds of the world would have more time to spend with their kids instead of laboring over daily chores. Forgot to cook that four-course meal, Mom? Just put meal capsules on the plates. The kids'll be patting their stomachs in a few seconds...
...exhibit/ride, housed in the most famous geodesic sphere in the world, shows "dazzling scenes of life in the 21st century's Global Neighborhood depict[ing] every corner of our world drawn closer through new technologies." The ride, in true Disney-esque fashion, revisits the themes expressed in the 1950s magazines--perfect family life made easier through human advances...
...last 10 years, as 2000 has drawn closer, we have stopped dreaming about The Future. There was just too much that needed to happen before we'd be in a position to achieve the hopes we originally had for it. We aren't close to the Donna Reed 1950s Space Age ideal. In fact, Donna Reed largely doesn't exist anymore. As fewer women choose to be housewives, the need to create Rosie the Robot has ironically fallen by the wayside. Flying cars aren't anywhere near the horizon. We're just getting started with alternative automobile fuel sources like...
Kahn, a native Brooklynite who covered the Dodgers for the New York Herald-Tribune throughout the 1950s, always tried to resist the temptation to make mental assumptions about how a given game would turn...
...scientific approach to political science is certainly nothing new. In the 1950s, for example, 'behaviorism,' which used quantitative methods to look at voting patterns, swept through political science departments across America...