Keeping Entertainment at a Distance
How the Sports and Cinema Industry is Adapting to New Realities by Ali El Shamy Earlier this month, a photo circulated throughout various social media platforms showing an excerpt from an Italian newspaper from the year 1962. The image showed a number of people driving cars in a busy street, however they weren’t driving regular vehicles. Rather they were driving these strange futuristic vehicles, which consisted of only one driver’s seat, which was enclosed in a vertical glass dome. The reason why this image was circulated online was because the magazine that had featured
it supposedly predicted that this was what driving would look like in 2022, thereby implying that the Italian magazine predicted that social distancing would become a phenomenon in the 2020s and even worse implying that it would become a necessary measure for a good part of this decade. While it is true that this image was featured in a 1962 issue of Domenica del Corriere newspaper, the year 2022 was never mentioned in the publication and more importantly the newspaper didn’t predict that we would be using single person cars for protective reasons. Rather, it said that due to the increasing
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