Futurama: An Immersive Experience of America\u27s Automotive Future

General Motors’ Futurama exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair offered a wildly popular immersive experience of American automobility twenty years in the future. The Fair proclaimed the “Dawn of a New Day” in “The World of Tomorrow” through comprehensive innovative architecture and design, which promoted the primary role of new technology, especially in the field of transportation. Futurama harnessed techniques of theatre and multi-media in unprecedented ways. Its narrow aim was to foster the construction of new highway systems hospitable to the growing population of modern cars. More broadly, Futurama sought to inculcate a new way of thinking about an auto-centric future, with fast, safe travel at the core of everyday life. The paper examines how this remarkable socio-technical imaginary was constructed by Futurama in the context of the New York World’s Fair

Futurama: An Immersive Experience of America\u27s Automotive Future

General Motors’ Futurama exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair offered a wildly popular immersive experience of American automobility twenty years in the future. The Fair proclaimed the “Dawn of a New Day” in “The World of Tomorrow” through comprehensive innovative architecture and design, which promoted the primary role of new technology, especially in the field of transportation. Futurama harnessed techniques of theatre and multi-media in unprecedented ways. Its narrow aim was to foster the construction of new highway systems hospitable to the growing population of modern cars. More broadly, Futurama sought to inculcate a new way of thinking about an auto-centric future, with fast, safe travel at the core of everyday life. The paper examines how this remarkable socio-technical imaginary was constructed by Futurama in the context of the New York World’s Fair

Welcome to the world of tomorrow today: Matt Groening\u27s Futurama as posthuman mediator

In this thesis an explanation of posthuman theory along with a close analysis of both Fry and the robot Bender. These analyses respectively show how we are already posthuman as well as the material limitations of posthuman subjectivity

Futurama

Catalogo ufficiale del Programma "Futurama": ricerche, multivisione, mostre, rassegna cinematorgrafica e incontri per immaginare e riflettere sul futuro della nostra società.- Indice #9- Perché Futurama, Marcello Pacini #10- Le nuove biotecnologie, Gabriele Milanesi #78- Telecomunicazioni: situazione attuale e prospettive future, Francesco Carassa #88- Le tecnologie degli anni '80 nell'informatica , Arnaldo Pasini #106- Il futuro dell'industria spaziale, Ernesto Vallerani #112- Un futuro per l'aviazione civile, Aeritalia #132- Il futuro delle tecnologie marine, Gaetano Sebastiani #138- L'evoluzione tecnologica del veicolo industriale, F. Pinolini #150- Torino 1990: 10 anni ai 100 dell'automobile italiana, M. Traversi #154- Ripensando la città futura, Paolo Portoghesi #16

Emergencia das zonas do perfil conceitual de calor em uma sequência didática

A noção de perfil conceitual foi proposta por Mortimer (1996), para abarcar a ideia de um conceito único apresentar vários modos de falar e de pensar, que representam pensamentos filosóficos e ontológicos distintos, usados em contextos diferentes. Neste trabalho procuramos analisar o discursode estudantes, em busca da emergência das zonas do perfil de calor (Amaral e Mortimer, 2001), bem como traços de tomada de consciência, utilizando uma sequência didática. Após a análise dos dados, registrados em vídeo e transcritos, percebemos uma construção de conhecimento relativo ao conceito de calor no discurso e, mesmo apresentando algumas irregularidades, percebemos que noções científicas foram construídas e confrontadas com as demais visões. Além disso, percebemos indícios de uma possível tomada de consciência da multiplicidade das zonas por parte dos estudantes