The Futuristic World of The Jetsons

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I'm sure that many of us remember the 1960s TV cartoon series "The Jetsons". It was a cute show about a futuristic family and had some very futuristic and imaginative technology. It was set one hundred years in the future, 2062, and told the story of the Jetson family and their adventures in Orbit City. Later, a magazine writer, Matt Novak, wrote in Smithsonian that the show was the "single most important piece of 20th century futurism." That it had the ability to "present possible future technologies in a very simple and entertaining way". Nowadays we have Skype, Zoom, and FaceTime, but on The Jetson's George Jetson could be seen using a video watch much like today's smart watches. And just a few seconds into the first episode, Jane Jetson is seen standing in front of a flat-screen TV that is suspended from the ceiling. And, again in the first episode, we are introduced to Rosie the Robot, their robotic housekeeper. And, in episode 15 of season 1, George Jetson is getting his physical exam. Dr. Radius has George swallow a tiny robotic pill called the Peekaboo Prober. It enters the body and scans the internal systems. (Nowadays, we have something called capsule endoscopy with the ingestible PillCam) In episode 16 of season 1, "Millionaire Astro", we visit the mansion of the billionaire G.P. Gottrocketts, and he is getting his three-second tan from a tanning bed with three settings: Miami, Honolulu, or Riviera. I still watch reruns of this show. It was great. The only thing we are missing are the flying cars. The picture is from Pinterest.com