World’s Fair

A large public exhibition, notably including the 1964 New York World’s Fair, showcasing technological, cultural, and economic achievements and serving as a site for public presentations of innovation and authority.

Claims that use this term

• The 1964 World’s Fair drove the police crackdown on New York’s avant-garde.
• Computers were presented as impartially authoritative economic oracles at the 1964 World’s Fair.