Arcadia struck me as a very special name as a child. I enjoyed two cartoon series that played early in the morning on Nickelodeon. One was The Mysterious Cities of Gold, and the other was Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. One was a fictionalized historic drama/adventure cartoon, and the other was science fiction. In Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea the people lived in the lost city of Arkadia (named for Arcadia).
As a child I also became very fond of video games, which often were featured in video game arcades, hence the connection and positive relation to “Arcadia”.
I grew up watching classic Looney Tunes and Tex Avery cartoons also. The Tex Avery House of Tomorrow cartoon, and others like it, combined with the futurism of Back to the Future Part II, combined with the subtext in Tomorrow Land and the original concept for the EPCOT park (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), all pointed to a bright future where computers and robots free humans from the repetitive and cumbersome tasks that so many day laborers and factory workers have been required to perform to survive in modern society.
I saw my step father go to work in the hot and humid Florida weather, prepping and spray painting walls and doors on construction sites. This is something I never wanted to have to endure. I wanted to sit in an office, in the air conditioning, comfortable, using my mind to do something highly skilled. Programming video games, creating artwork, or modeling 3D worlds like Myst.