Not surprisingly, all their neighbors were white. The Jetsons had the option of eating food pills, little capsules that somehow satisfied all their nutritional needs and cravings. After I broke my foot recently, I ordered two cases of Soylent , the Silicon Valley brogrammer-favorite shake that more or less fulfills our basic nutritional needs. My colleague Mike Murphy once noted that there almost as many ingredients in Soylent as there are characters in Game of Thrones.
But it is efficient and filling and more nutritious than toast with butter. It reminds me a lot of this J. I think I have something similar in my closet. What I actually dreamed of were flying cars like the family-friendly hovercraft that the Jetsons drove, but entrepreneurs and engineers are staying on the ground, for now. In , science fiction author Isaac Asimov made a series of 50 predictions about And some have just been delayed a few years. If all else fails, the prediction is still true: there was much effort, indeed.
As a matter of the fact, Rosie inspired iRobot founder Colin Angle, who was fascinated by the cartoon as a kid. The world where George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy Jetson lived, with robot housekeepers and ozone-scraping luxury smart homes that can dress and groom you by themselves , was a vertical manifest destiny, one where audiences could hang their starry-eyed hopes about the future.
But as anyone familiar with H. The rebooted series updates several glaring outdated elements from the original series. Its biggest retcon , though, is the revelation of exactly what sent humanity to settle the stratosphere in the first place.
The comic informs us that a few decades before the rebooted series begins, a mile-long ice meteor crashed into the Pacific Ocean, causing massive worldwide earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and rising ocean levels that completely submerged the planet. A fraction of humanity was able to escape to space stations built in orbit as insurance for just this sort of disaster, and they waited there until floating dwellings could be built for survivors in the upper atmosphere.
When Elroy and Lake decide to go for a deep-sea dive to recover art from what was once the Museum of Modern Art, we get a bone-chilling look at the ruins of New York City at the bottom of the ocean: the most populous city in America, transformed into one immense shipwreck. As series writer Jimmy Palmiotti explained , these choices ground the franchise more firmly in our current and future realities, and bring the series into more believable territories.
For years, viewers and critics of color have half-joked that the countless all-white casts of science fiction entertainment could be the result of some unnamed bitter race war or genocide, an event so terrible that even mentioning it has become taboo in polite society. So who got to make those choices, and what does the world of The Jetsons tell us about who they valued and who they deemed disposable?
Historically, impoverished groups and developing countries tend to be the the most vulnerable to death and destruction when catastrophic environmental disaster strikes. It also explores labor in a world where technology has replaced huge swathes of human labor. In the original cartoon, the artificial intelligence industry is booming, and despite their apparent sentience, AI beings like Rosie the Robot are still indentured for life.
Unskilled workers no longer seem to exist. But as Mac Montandon explains quite well in his book Jetpack Dreams , the devices researched and developed successfully at Bell Aerospace in the early s are more appropriately named rocket belts. The patent explicitly explains the desire for the rocket belt to be used by military personnel, but much like other innovations of the American military, the public expected that they would one day get a jetpack of their very own.
For a number of years, there has been a need for increasing the mobility of military personnel, for example, infantrymen, by way of providing some means to directly lift and transport an individual soldier. It is of primary concern in connection with the present invention to provide such means in the form of a safe, reliable and easily controllable rocket propulsion system having sufficient total impulse to lift and propel an individual for distances up to approximately two or three miles.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a device in accordance with the above which is capable of being utilized by the average soldier with an absolute minimum of training. Thus, the jetpack has been relegated to concerts and Super Bowls as an entertaining spectacle. Matt Novak is the author of the Paleofuture blog, which can now be found on Gizmodo.
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