The Jetsons : i thought the future would be like the Jetsons

this is silly but when i was a kid i actually thought the 21st century would be like the Jetsons with flying cars, robots, etc, i guess in the distant future that will happen one day. :D

A lot of people thought that. The 1964-65 World's Fair was basically a prediction of Jetson World (except for the flying cars): total modernity, universal prosperity, and, presumably, no more war.

To be fair we do have the 'moving pavements' in airports and some malls!

It just struck me that everyone in Jetson's World was white - at least I think so. Were there ever any non-white characters? It's been a long time since I've seen the show.

I was watching it the other day and I had the same thought, but I'm not sure if I've seen them all there might be a single non-white character thrown in somewhere for an effort in late 1960s political correctness!

I haven't seen any episodes in about forty years (I suppose that's a good thing?). Anyway, they were mostly made in the early and mid-1960s, when the idea of "racial balance" hadn't really taken hold on network TV.

the race card doesn't apply with Hanna-Barbera, because characters to a back seat to the plot so they could figure what their budget would allow them to get away with. the necessary budget conditions for the animation to meet the par of say Warner Brothers wasn't available to them until the late 1980s and then a truckload of black characters showed up because plot no longer had to be the primary concern

The future will be like the Jetsons, even as we speak scientists in Japan (i read an article about it and i think it was in Japan, Americans are too dumb to do anything anymore) recently started designing a flying car prototype, so yeah eventually it's coming.

I always thought it would be like this and the year 2015 in BTTF II, boy was I wrong. Things actually seem to be getting a lot worse across the board. We are less like The Jetsons and more like Children of Men.

Try not to take life too seriously, no one gets out alive.

Considering that The Jetsons was set in 2062, 100 years from the time it was made, I guess it's still possible that we'll get our flying cars on schedule. We still have a little over 50 years to go.

Let's hope we can still get there

I refuse to argue on IMDB until the general populous actually uses their brains

It is becoming more a "1984" or A "Fahrenheit 451" than "Jetsons". And it is scary.

Hahaha! Nailed it.

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