"Finally we got inside. My stomage tightened and my heart beat as we prepared for the exhibit. We ran and took seats, each of us in a chair with high sides and loudspeakers build into them, they faced the same direction and were in a track. The lights went down. Music played and the chairs lurched and began to move sideways. In front of us a whole world lit up, as if we were flying over it, the most fantastic sight I had ever seen, an entire city of the future, with scyscrapers and fourteen-lane highways, real little cars moving on them at different speeds, the center lanes for the higher speeds, the lanes on the edge for the lower."
[1] Page 5 of the booklet about the Futurama. [2] Title page of the booklet.
Extract from the worth reading book: "World's Fair" by E. L. Doctorow, born 1931 in New York, in which he describes a childhood and a visit at the world's fair in 1939.
The quotation of E. L. Doctorow describes the impression of the drive in moving seats upon a very detailed, wide miniature landscape with moving traffic, modernistic skyscrapers in the green and fourteen-lane highways.
Every visitor of the Futurama should have been given such a button...
