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The Futurama was an exhibit/ride at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair held in the USA, designed by Norman Bel Geddes that showed the world 20 years into the future (1960), including automated highways and vast suburbs. The exhibit was sponsored by General Motors. Compared to other "visions of the future," Bel Geddes' was rather achievable - the most advanced technology posited was the automated highway system, of which GM did indeed build a working prototype by 1960.

The Futurama is widely held to have first introduced the general American public to the concept of a network of superhighways connecting the nation. Bel Geddes expounded upon his design in his book Magic Motorways.

An updated version, Futurama II, appeared at the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair. The 1964 version depicted life 60 years into the future, this time 2024. Scenes showed a lunar base of operation, an Antarctic "Weather Central" climate forecasting center, underseas exploration and "Hotel Atlantis" for underseas vacationing, desert irrigation, and land reclamation, building roads in the jungle and a City of the Future. Visitors rode through the dioramas in 3-abreast chairs on a ride train. The Futurama exhibit was sponsored by General Motors and proved to be the most popular exhibit at the World's Fair with more than 26 million persons attending the show in the two 6-month seasons the Fair was open. Waiting lines were often two hours long and longer.

Futurama, the popular animated television show set 1000 years in the future, was named after this exhibit.

The Futurama is featured in Steven Barnes' novelization of the popular Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Far Beyond the Stars".

• "To New Horizons" - a video document recording the display at the 1939/40 World's Fair (from the Prelinger archive)
• nywf64.com (1964/1965 New York World's Fair Website) story of the General Motors Futurama II