What at Expo 2020 Dubai will be in popular culture 20 years from now? That’s the question Charles Pappas asks himself while walking around the site. Charles is the author of a history on World Expos called ‘Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords’. Over the years, World Expos have shaped history, individual lives, and popular culture.
In this episode, we give the mic to Charles Pappas to tell us several little stories that prove how World Expos not only influence pop culture, but make it.
This podcast is by Expo 2020 Dubai and produced by Kerning Cultures Network.
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