Two things appear to be repetitively accurate about emerging technologies. First, content production studios often set unrealistic expectations on what's possible and what isn't with new devices and systems. Second, innovators of all types are doing their best to catch up with fiction and sometimes have to remind everybody that what's onscreen can be misleading. Remember the movie'Tomorrowland' starring George Clooney and a whiz kid in a futuristic city? The film was memorable because it gave us a utopian vision of the future.

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.

Does It Hold Up is a chance to re-experience childhood favorites of books, movies, TV shows, video games, and other cultural phenomenon decades later. Have they gotten better like a fine wine, or are we drinking cork? A cornerstone of any pre-teen's life between 1998 to 2007 was the Disney Channel original movie. If you grew up during that time you do not need a refresher on why movies like Halloweentown or Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century were popular -- they were your main option for entertainment because you were constantly at home! (That is what it is like to not have a driver's license.) But you may need a refresher on their content, because I just revisited a bunch of them and they are not what I thought.