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Introduction The Futurama video displays a famous pop up display from the World's Fair in New York in 1964.  It predicts the ways in which technology will affect the lives of everyday humans in large ways.  They see technology as the savior to the people of the earth and believe that technology points the way to limitless promise.  They describe technology as being able to provide new solutions and more opportunities for research to do things like fix world hunger and fix overpopulation by inhabiting previously uninhabitable places.  They did predict some things correctly like how in the future we will have self-driving electric cars (although it is still a work in process), but overall the video displays a sort of dystopian view on technology.  The concept reminds me a lot of TomorrowLand or Spaceship Earth in Disney World where they look as the past and speculate about the future.  Although the Tears For Fears video seems in my opinion a bit exaggerated at times, it presents a

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