Context: The 1939-40 World's Fair, home to the original Futurama exhibition designed by Norman Bel Geddes.

Context: In the post-war era, industrial filmmakers begin their campaign to present the highway as a pathway to prosperity.

Context: Science fictional representations of the highway take a turn from futurism to dystopia.

Chronotope: Natural spaces, technological spaces and manifest destiny in the Futurama exhibit.

Chronotope: Geddes' Futurama is revisited and reimagined at the 1964-65 World's Fair in the film "To the Fair".

Chronotope: Kim Stanley Robinson's "Three Californias" and the future of nostalgia.

Specter: The Futurama's technocracy, community resistance and the narrative of "urban renewal."

Specter: Exploring "Design for Dreaming," a musical extravaganza celebrating the consumer lifestyle set at the GM 1956 "Motorama."

Specter: The ghosts of highway futures-past continue to haunt us in retro-science fiction and nostalgic car commercials.

Machine: The Futurama reimagines the superhighway as a networked machine.

Machine: Road safety films, JG Ballard, and the New Dromology of the killing machine.

Machine: Three visions of the future highway as a technological system, in Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Gold Coast," JG Ballard's "Concrete Island," and Cordwainer Smith's "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard."

Where do we go from here? And how will we get there?