In A Brief History of Intelligence: Evoltion AI and the five Breakthroughs that made our brains by Max S Bennet he starts by talking about the show JETSONS!
If Flintstones was set in the pre historic times, the Jetsons was set in the future!
Now why this is important is because of the amazing predictions! Many which came true while one big prediction which is still a distant dream!
The Jetsons premiered in 1962! Though it was apparently based in the year 2062!
Luckily though the technology caught up with the show pretty early!
Just couple of decades after the show; the modern technology predicted and shown in the show are reality now!
The accurate predictions which are a part of our normal life now and thought to be science fiction starts with the phone!
Characters regularly used videophones to talk to family and bosses, a direct precursor to Zoom, FaceTime, and Skype! Remember during that time many did not even have landlines!
Elroy Jetson and his friends used wristwatches to watch TV and make calls, mirroring the functionality of the Apple Watch and other modern smartwatches! Now we do not watch the TV in the Watch but it is not a big deal since it can be done!
The show featured small, automated cleaning robots that are nearly identical in concept and function to the iRobot Roomba and the amazing smart cleaners of today!
George Jetson was often seen reading the newspaper on a screen rather than paper, predating digital tablets and online news!
The “Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle” produced meals at the touch of a button. Today, 3D food printers use cartridges of edible materials to create complex dishes!
The “Peekaboo Prober,” a tiny ingested robot used for internal medical exams, is now a reality through PillCam technology!
The show even featured vacations to the moon. While not yet common, companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin are actively making commercial space travel a reality!
George frequently consulted doctors via video screens, a practice that became a global standard for telemedicine during and after the 2020 pandemic!
There was also concepts of smart home and voice activation and voice automation!
All in 1962!
Now if was not the series written by Nostradamus that everything came true! The modern technology is yet to replicate ROSEY! The caretaker AI robot!
Then again that is a matter for another blog!
Matter of play or khel khel main also was the movie by Ravi Tandon!
Now catch an old episode of Jetsons and sleep!
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