[1] https://archive.org/details/1975changestocom0000arno/page/32...
Only a single, off-hand mention of Star Trek in the whole article?
The author’s claim is ridiculously short-sighted not only for discounting Star Trek, but plenty of other shows and movies with visionary concepts that eventually came to be.
> As Graydon points out, “The Jetsons” was a projection of the model American family into the future.
This is a completely different setting than Star Trek Fleet Command thing.
I am not sure if the 1980s version of the show also used that architecture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_architecture
And it's glorious! I wish we would go back to this.
LOL. Perhaps it's important to Americans.
I'm not sure I've seen a single episode, I certainly didn't see it when it was broadcast.
That really seems to go against the premise of the show as shown on the opening (typically modern day 1960s nuclear family but in the future).
I looked into this and Wikipedia cites this fact as being from the 1985 version not the original cartoon.
I suspect taking a joke about George's workday from the 85 version as "canon" kind of misses the point of the show.
I had no idea. The article is right in saying that if you were a kid at that time (and I was just old enough to be aware of the moon landing as it was happening, although I was surprised at the time that it hadn't happened before), of course you approved. But if you were an adult, you didn't necessarily see the value.
MisterTea•1w ago
Having watched the Jetsons as a kid I remember that George Jetson worked for Spaceley Sprockets where his only job was to push a single button. He worked with a computer personality called Rudy (an AI) who from memory was always depressed and had a crush on a female computer personality of rival company Cogsworth Cogs.
It would be interesting to revisit this with a focus on the relationship and interactions between humans and their AI/robotics.
klez•4d ago
pnexk•4d ago
It’s also interesting for me because it’s a small slice of insight into the cultural consciousness of people’s perceptions of the trajectory of technology and its ills & promises at the time. It may sound like I’m exaggerating how long ago this was, but it really does feel like 2015 onwards was a large disruption from the expected status quo in the West in both good and bad ways. Not just in politics (Cambridge analytica?)but also in the way the general public perceived the technology industry and the nature of the kind of force it is at large in society.
JKCalhoun•4d ago
ChrisMarshallNY•4d ago
Are you familiar with Questionable Content[0]? He sort of takes it "all the way."
[0] https://questionablecontent.net
bitwize•4d ago