Events

Event Description

Discover the surprising secrets behind your favorite rides, like how missile-testing technology brought the Enchanted Tiki Room’s parrots to life and how car factory robots helped build the Matterhorn. This talk reveals how Disneyland didn’t just entertain us but actually taught a generation to love automation by hiding the gears of industry inside magical adventures. It’s a fun journey showing how the magic of the theme park quietly shaped everything from our traffic patterns to modern AI.

Event Speaker

Roland Betancourt, Chancellor’s Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine

Event Information

Free and open to the public; registration required. 

Hosted by the Science History Institute.