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| sharkbate wrote: i really don't get the jetsons because they are meant to be living in the 21st century but they don't have things such as mobile phones, mp3 players, ipods, the internet, usb flash drives / memory sticks, dvds, dvd players or web cams,
That's an interesting list, I'm very much aware that the Jetsons share a late 50's vision of the future - a future without a lot of gadgets, (generic, personal stuff), and this "clean" lifestyle was very prominent in early 60's future fiction. Devices, electronic or mechanical, were present but they were all hidden or actually built-in to furniture, walls, etc.
I remember a show hosted by Walter Cronkite called "The 21st Century" that aired in 1967 where Walter walked into a "house of the future". The inside was empty. If you wanted to sit and read just touch the control panel by the door and chairs w/ table would rise from the floor. The voice-activated phone was built-in to the table top w/ flush mounted keypad. What looked like a blank wall was the TV, it was always "on" so the screensaver was a color co-ordinated wall to match the rest of the interior; it too was activated by voice command with a hidden keypad for manual control.
Gadgets were everywhere but it was all hidden, many "visions of the future" were clean, minimalist and almost spartan to a fault. Our reality of stuff filled lives today would not be believed by future forecasters from the 60's. When the Jetsons premiered in 1962, Hanna-Barbera made the future as cartoon fun. They never could have guessed back then that most folks today would own so much stuff it's hard to find room to store it all.
Jetsons Episode 10 - Uniblab... |
There is a battle between two wolves inside us all.
The Eldorado is dead. Long live the Eldorado.
There is a battle between two wolves inside us all.
