Darn you George Jetson

In the 1960s, we were promised a much different 2012 from the predictors, leaving us with space travel, flying cars and robot maids.

  This is not what I expected. We're entering the year 2012. By now, I should be using my jet pack to get around the neighborhood, or taking a pill for food. Of course, I’d only be working a couple of days a week and playing golf on the moon the rest of the time. I was expecting to be using my four-iron on the 10th crater. Darn George Jetson. In the 1960s cartoon “The Jetsons,” George zipped around in a flying car, had a robot maid and worked a few hours a day. He even had a machine put his clothes on. This was supposed to be life in the 21st century. We were lied to. What a rip job! I’m on my 14th hour of work today, existing on coffee, which was made on a stove, not by pushing a button. I was promised a flying car by now. There was a …

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Steve Davis

3:03 pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2012

You had me nodding my head on this one, Mike. I too was expecting great things and agree that Google has matched at least one of George Jetson's futuristic appliances. Seems to me that Cesar Milan -- the famous dogtrainer -- also uses a Jestson-like treadmill to walk his dogs. Who knows, maybe there are more great things in store for 2012!   more ›

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