Retro-futurism

How The Jetsons’ Future Inspired Our Present

Fifty years ago this past Sunday, the  Jetson  family made its debut on American television. Hanna-Barbera’s space age counterpart to  The Flintstones, the show lasted only 24 episodes, and yet has remained culturally ubiquitous for the past five decades. It was revived in the mid-1980s for several seasons, and later adapted for a film. Called the “single most […]

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