Visions of 1964 World's Fair didn't all come true

NEW YORK -- The millions of visitors who attended the New York World's Fair that opened in 1964 were introduced to a range of technological innovations and predictions.

Some of those turned out to be right on the money and others, perhaps thankfully, were way off the mark.

At the Bell System pavilion, engineers touted a "picturephone" that allowed callers to see who they were talking to, a concept that lives on in modern-day apps such as Skype and FaceTime.

Of course, not everything came to pass, like some of the views of the future in the "Futurama 2" ride put together by General Motors. It included scenes of colonies on the moon as well as a machine that used a laser to cut through rainforests, leaving behind paved roads.