The Disney Frontier Blog

It’s ashame but true. Tomorrowland is far from futuristic anymore. Everything futuristic has either come true (microwave ovens) or is so unlikely (hover cars), that there is little imagination lent to the idea. The best the imagineers have done is the Carousel of Progress which features not to imaginitive near term technologies that feel more like an advertisement for a consumer product than a fantastic vision of tomorrow.

Matt at Paleo-Future has an excellent blog post along these lines. Paleo-Future: Disney Calls Future a Thing of the Past (1997)