WEDNESDAY A/V CLUB: WHAT WE LEFT AT THE WORLD’S FAIR: “John Crowley and Jason Robards look back at a festival of social planning,” Jesse Walker writes at Reason. “‘The world’s fairs of the 20th century, Virginia Postrel once wrote, ‘encouraged visitors to equate progress and technological optimism with the Galbraithian vision of stable, heavily bureaucratic, industrial quasi-monopolies—the corporate version of nation states—working with government to determine the future.’ The World of Tomorrow, a made-for-TV documentary from 1984, looks back at the most famous of those fairs with a perspective that mixes nostalgia for that vision with an awareness that it didn’t really pan out.”