Editing 1964 New York World's Fair (section)

=== Consumer products ===
The 1964 World's Fair introduced and showed many consumer products,<ref name="Spokesman u062">{{cite web |last=Harpaz |first=Beth J. |date=April 27, 2014 |title=Relics of the 1964 World's Fair Reveal Our Fascination with Outer Space |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/apr/27/relics-of-the-1964-worlds-fair-reveal-our/ |access-date=May 27, 2024 |website=Spokesman |agency=The Associated Press}}</ref><ref name="Bonanos 2014 v186">{{cite web |last=Bonanos |first=Christopher |date=April 22, 2014 |title=10 Innovations From the 1964–65 World's Fair That Didn't Work Out (And 5 That Did) |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/04/near-miss-inventions-from-the-64-worlds-fair.html |access-date=June 4, 2024 |website=Intelligencer}}</ref> in what one magazine called "the ultimate marketing bonanza of [its] time".<ref name="p211850935">{{Cite magazine |last=Yarbrough |first=John F. |date=Jun 1996 |title=Fair Game: Yesterday's Dream, Today's Collectibles |magazine=Sales and Marketing Management |page=26 |volume=148 |issue=6 |id={{ProQuest|211850935}}}}</ref> [[Color television]] was popularized at the fair,<ref name="nyt-2014-04-18">{{Cite news |last=McGrath |first=Charles |date=April 18, 2014 |title=The Fair to End All Fairs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/nyregion/the-fair-to-end-all-fairs.html |access-date=May 27, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and the [[Ford Mustang]] was launched just before its appearance at the fair.<ref name="Bonanos 2014 v186" /><ref name="Associated Press k397">{{cite web |date=April 12, 2014 |title=A Look at Predictions from the 1964 World's Fair |url=https://whyy.org/articles/a-look-at-predictions-from-the-1964-worlds-fair/ |access-date=June 6, 2024 |website=WHYY |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> The fair also displayed technologies such as [[Picturephone]]s and IBM computers,<ref name="Tirella pp. 201–202">{{harvnb|Tirella|2013|ps=.|pages=201–202}}</ref><ref name="CBS News 2014">{{cite web |date=April 22, 2014 |title=1964 World's Fair: Visions of the Future |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/1964-worlds-fair-visions-of-the-future/2/ |access-date=June 4, 2024 |website=CBS News}}</ref> as well as electronic devices that could display personalized data to visitors.<ref name="p426610123" /> Some pavilions incorporated [[personal computer]]s into their exhibits, and many visitors saw [[touchtone phone]]s for the first time while at the fair.<ref name="Associated Press k397" /> Other innovations, such as [[thermonuclear fusion]] power plants, undersea hotels, underground houses,<ref name="Bonanos 2014 v186" /> [[jet pack]]s, and [[Corfam]] synthetic leather, never became popular.<ref name="Rhoades 2014 o150">{{cite web |last=Rhoades |first=Liz |date=June 12, 2014 |title=Legacies Abound from World's Fair |url=https://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/legacies-abound-from-world-s-fair/article_61ebaee2-25bc-525e-882b-be1fc4d7f5d1.html |access-date=June 4, 2024 |website=Queens Chronicle}}</ref>