Disney reopens Carousel of Progress, adopts RFID for bottomless mugs

Cory Doctorow 6:56 pm Sun Jun 23, 2002

Loads of news about Walt Disney World from the Orlando Sentinel. For starters, Disney's tagging its "bottomless mugs" with RFID chips so that they can't be resold or reused during multiple visits.

More importantly, though: My beloved Carousel of Progress is reopening! The Carousel debuted at the 1964 World's Fair and is a testiment to the goofy astro-futurism of its day. The themesong that the Sherman Brothers wrote for it, "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow," could be the Official Extropian Anthem ("There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day, there's a great big beautiful tomorrow, and tomorrow's just a dream away").

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