» Wednesday, 18 June A.D. 2008
the jetsons
At FTF today, the keynote speaker talked about the Jetsons and how, in a decade or so, we may see some of the technologies suggested in the Jetsons as a reality in our daily lives. And that made me think. You know, the Jetsons had all this fantastic stuff, didn't have to drive themselves everywhere, freed from the tedium of housework, etc. etc. And yet there was still conflict to be had, work to be done...their lives really weren't that different from the sort of lives we go through everyday. Certainly makes one a bit skeptical about people who go on at length about how machines and computers will free us to do bigger and better things...the Jetsons certainly weren't.
posted by Nate @ 3:59PM