Fifty years ago this week, The Jetsons premiered. It only lasted 24 episodes (not including the mid-1980s “revival”), but it truly embodied the tech optimism of the time. In the world of professional futurism, The Jetsons (like a lot of science fiction) can be a great provocation for discussion. For example, every episode is filled with examples of futuristic tech that never happened, at least in the way that we imagined them in the 1960s. (Roomba vs. Roomba!)
via Boing Boing
September 26, 2012


