Comments | matt_arnold: World's Fair

matt_arnold

World's Fair

Mar 29, 2005 09:19

The 2005 World Fair in Aichi Japan has a wonderful website. Check out the pavilions. This World Fair is incredibly robotized, by the way. I'm not talking about Disney's Audio-Animatronics. I mean white plastic robots that walk around and see their environment and interact with it, offering to guide visitors to their destination or just sweeping up ( Read more... )

humanism, world fair, epcot, disney, secular, creativity

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matt_arnold March 29 2005, 22:04:36 UTC

Thanks for the link! This is not threadjacking at all. Disney is sufficiently utopian to have even bought and built a whole suburban city near Orlando, "Celebration, Florida," in which people can buy homes to live full-time in the painstakingly realized, rigidly enforced and policed Essence Of The American Dream ( ... )

rainbowgnosis March 30 2005, 01:16:34 UTC

Wow. That stuff is really quite awesome. Wish I could see it IRL!

Because I'm evil... phecda March 30 2005, 21:01:11 UTC

http://www.nwa.com/features/tpacspring05/

NWA's spring sale to Asia extended to March 31 (tomorrow...)