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* "IGY," the first track on [[Steely Dan|Donald Fagen's]] 1982 album ''The Nightfly'', is pretty much this trope in a nutshell. He describes a world where there's a [[Cool Train|train running undersea]] from New York to Paris every 90 minutes, everyone gets their own [[Space Clothes|Spandex jacket]], [[Weather Control Machine|weather is controlled]] and solar power is plentiful - and it's all run by computers [[The Computer Is Your Friend|programmed "with compassion and vision."]] The liner notes describe the album as "certain fantasies that might have been entertained by a young man growing up [...] during the late fifties and early sixties, i.e., one of my general height, weight and build."

** The title is a reference to the [[wikipedia:International Geophysical Year|International Geophysical Year]], a scientific event in 1957-8 that was the USSR's excuse to launch Sputnik into space, thus kicking off the "rocket age" for real.

 

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