Bradbury on Disneyland

In 1965,  Sci-Fi diety Ray Bradbury went to Disneyland and penned this essay on the park, American culture and robots. 

Do I make too much of this? Perhaps. Nothing is guaranteed. We are wandering in the childhood of machines. When we and the machines ma­ture, who can say what we might ac­complish together?

Read the whole article, "The Machine-Tooled Happyland" via holidaymag

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