EPCOT Center: A Definition
Welcome to EPCOT Center, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney chose this name to describe what has become the realization of his greatest dream.
He Visualized EPCOT Center as a project that “will never be completed but will always be introducing, testing, and demonstrating new materials and new systems . . . a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise." But unlike most Utopian Visions, EPCOT Center is real: here the future is something to see, hear, smell, touch and taste and wonder about.
There are two parts of EPCOT Center: Future World and World Showcase. In the Disney tradition of master storytelling, Furture World demonstrates the dazzling technology of the years to come. World Showcase highlights the preset and its most vital resource: people. The World Showcase illustrates life around the world with such realism that visitors may well feel transported to the countries represented. Both parts of EPCOT Center work together to create a "permanent (showcase) of Imagination and discovery, education and exploration ..."
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SPACESHIP EARTH Presented by AT&T […]
UNIVERSE OF ENERGY Presented by EXXON […]
HORIZONS Presented by General Electric […]
THE LAND Presented by Kraft […]
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