# The Last Week of August 

By [Pioneering Spirit](https://pioneeringspirit.xyz) · 2024-08-29

world, fair, future, history, perspective, what's next, horseless driverless

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### 1913

Train and auto accidents, New York machine politics, palace intrigue south of the border... a different world existed before the great war.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/907f3ebeb7e3b81246f0c6c3c123827a.png)

1939
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From the Futurama exhibit at the World's Fair.

[![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/4787e13225a089098574bf1ad2e9ede8.png)](https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/the-wild-ghost-pontiac-embodies-the-spirit-of-1939s-new-york-worlds-fair/)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/bedce574761e335856738deb498ad7f2.png)

Page two of the NYT. The front page featured other [events](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_German_ultimatum_to_Poland#:~:text=The%201939%20German%20ultimatum%20to,negotiate%20on%20August%2029%2C%201939.).

1940
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![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/8fdbf5a4c0580d8fd221bb343cad95d6.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/458fcf8dec12812a331d04c61708d950.png)

2024
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Horseless, driverless carriages give over a 100,000 rides.

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![](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1247366993.jpg?resize=1200,633)

https://techcrunch.com

Waymo is now giving 100,000 robotaxi rides a week | TechCrunch
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Waymo disclosed Tuesday it's now giving more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across its three main commercial markets in Los Angeles, San





](https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/20/waymo-is-now-giving-100000-robotaxi-rides-week/?guccounter=1)

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