Barring a few roadbumps it would've worked. EPCOT was not impossible, just REALLY expensive to build and maintain. Years prior people thought Disney Land was impossible but Walt did it, people had doubts about EPCOT but nobody was willing to bet against Walt by this point.
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Before people get the wrong idea, EPCOT was never meant to be some ideological utopia of the future. It was certainly not a Human Zoo that guests could see some idealized 1950's-esque utopian neighborhood.
Yes people would've lived in EPCOT but whether they lived there permanently was never finalized. (There was a retirement area planned but also there were plans for people to simply lease a property for a specific time and under specific rules.)
EPCOT was designed to be a playground for American industry. EPCOT would've been a testing ground for upcoming technology on a massive scale with real people testing the technology in ways no company could feasibly reproduce in a lab.
Examples:
Every home in EPCOT would've had a computer(s) and it's own network system before such technology was really feasible on a commercial scale. People of EPCOT would've had access to something similar to Usenet years before the general public.
Every home in EPCOT would've had the latest model of appliances before they were available commercially. (The idea being to test the technology in a more natural environment.)
This was the real purpose of EPCOT.
