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It was 1939, the height of the Depression, and at the New York World's Fair in Flushing, Queens, the "World of Tomorrow" exhibit debuted numerous "products of tomorrow," from Nylon stockings to the dishwasher to the television. Twenty-five years later at the same site, Ford unveiled the Mustang, IBM displayed a computer with a diskette drive the size of a small kitchen table, and brochures at the Japanese pavilion declared that "if the American market is carefully surveyed and wisely marketed, it can easily absorb the volume equal to that which Japan buys from the U.S."
The New York World's Fairs of...