Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Yeah, Monsanto— move their most advanced R&D teams to this new city in Florida. And then Four, most important, the heart of the whole project is EPCOT. But again, not the EPCOT you know today. So Walt's EPCOT was going to be, in his own words, a living blueprint of the future where people actually live a life they can't find anywhere else in the world, a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise. And basically it is a sci-fi city. Meanwhile, I gotta say, they couldn't open most of Tomorrowland for 1955 when they opened Disneyland, and they're having a really hard time keeping up with the pace of technology. I walk through Tomorrowland even today and I'm like, this all feels really dated and nothing like tomorrow. I think Walt himself has a famous quip on this, which is tomorrow comes a lot faster into today than we can kinda keep up with. So you could imagine if they actually built this thing, it very quickly would not feel like the future. I mean, you plow a bunch of CapEx into concrete and futuristic concepts, new stuff gets invented real fast, and then it's ugly and old. That's a good point, but perhaps you haven't heard the vision for what this city is yet.…

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