From Instagram filters to smart watches: 12 technologies 1960s TV show ‘The Jetsons’ accurately predicted
As US billionaire Jared Isaacman declares his space mission goal is to create a world like ‘The Jetsons’, we reveal the 2021 technology the show anticipated 59 years ago
Video calls: Rather than make calls on traditional phones, the Jetsons communicated with friends and family via video calls on a special screen in the house. It s an idea director Stanley Kubrick would use six years later in the Oscar-winning ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. Courtesy Zoom, Hanna-Barbera Productions
Robots: In the Jetsons space home in Orbit City, Rosey the Robot took care of all the household chores, including cleaning up after messy patriarch George. Rosey was a precursor not only to today s increasingly realistic AI, but also to the automated vacuum cleaner, the Roomba. Courtesy Amazon, AP, Hanna-Barbera Productions