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To work, a theme park needs to collapse the mythic pasts that it depicts with the pasts of our own lives.
<span style="font-weight: 400">Deanna Day is a writer and historian. She earned a PhD in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014Her writing about science and culture, humans and cyborgs, and women and data has appeared in <em>Lady Science</em>, <em>Model View Culture</em>, <em>Cabinet</em>, <em>Slate</em>, and elsewhere around the internet. She lives in Los Angeles. Read more of her work at <a href="http://deannaday.net">http://deannaday.net</a>.</span>
To work, a theme park needs to collapse the mythic pasts that it depicts with the pasts of our own lives.
