Yesterland

Building an experimental city from scratch was always going to be a complex, expensive, problematic task--even Walt would have struggled to pull this one off. But the Walt Disney Co. seems to have abandoned all efforts at serious futurology. Since the abandonment of the "2055" project, the original Tomorrowland--home of Walt's starry-eyed vision of space, atoms, and transit--has displayed little of Walt's futuristic spirit. The park's current "Googie" architecture is a relic from the past, "a space age look that was enormously popular during the 1950s," according to the Disney website. The rides are a mixture of vintage classics (Autopia, the monorail, and the submarine still run) and Pixar/Star Wars–themed attractions that are more science-fiction than science-future.