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You're sitting in a plush chair in a darkened room ahead of you in opening. Your chair begins to move forward. The ride begins. Suddenly you find yourself hovering in the air above a landscape.

Miniature city streets filled with cars and trucks, houses and shops,

highways the likes of which you've never seen before, all flowing beneath you as if on a magic carpet.

The ride continues and when you get to the end...

The conveyor belt brought you down lower and lower towards a modern intersection with 1940 General Motors automobiles in miniature form.

Your chair swung out and you entered an actual full-scale version of a model which you had just seen.

This is General Motors Futurama, an exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

The 35,000 square foot model was a prediction of the world of tomorrow.

It was the company's vision of what the highways and cities in the year 1960 might look like.

Who created the world of tomorrow?

Legendary industrial designer Norman Bel Gettys.

This vision of the future, the kind of tomorrow land, is a vision shaped by Belged as more than anybody else.

Donald Albrecht is the curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York.

His exhibit on Bel Getty's life and work paints the designer as a man whose great contribution

to society was envisioning a future of urban design that quickly became familiar.

At the end of GM's Futurama, visitors were given a button to wear proudly as they wandered

the fairgrounds. It proclaimed in big, bold capital letters, an Automotive News Podcast.

I'm Shraz Amad and we've taken inspiration from Norman Bel Gettys and his 1939 vision of the future.

Our mission at Futurismo is to sit back and consider how the auto industry might transform over the next quarter century.

Each season will focus on a specific trend or technology that could have revolutionary implications for carmakers, suppliers, and dealers.

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