The Jetsons predictions:

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Everyone was a captive audience back then

They could have sold you toothpaste with razor blades in it and we'd all rush out to buy

[AllaN01Bear]

13. even earlier the sponsor owned the hour and the show . tide laundary soap presensts days of our lives .

this is where the term soap opera came from. or luckey strike cigerretes present,, and yes i loved the jetsons . trowlfaz, yecc

[Niagara]

2. Oh my Jetsons!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. 🤗

[True Dough]

3. Didn't they foresee

the online rise of Floyd R. Turbo, the greatest virtual force of them all?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. 😬

[MiHale]

4. The flying cars...still want one...so glad they don't make them!

[PJMcK]

5. Flying cars!

George Jetson’s car could fold up into a briefcase! I live part-time in NYC and that would solve my parking issues!

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. Yikes! Imagine the mayhem of flight accidents dropping randomly in your neighborhood!

Drunk/tired/angry flyers. Flight rage anyone?
The taxi scene in The Fifth Element comes to mind.

[MiHale]

9. Exactly why I'm glad they don't make 'em.

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[AllaN01Bear]

15. me too. untill a flying car can boast that it can fit into a suitcase , no. just dont foreget where you left your suit

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[Sancho]

16. Musk tried, but failed...

[Earth-shine]

18. If I recall correctly, there were also flying car traffic jams.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. I love mine! 😁

[MiHale]

28. 🤣👍

[underpants]

6. Judy's "video call"

😳👀😄

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. I think that's Jane!

[underpants]

26. Oh yeah. Shoulda checked that.

[twodogsbarking]

7. From Wikipedia

The original had 24 episodes and aired on Sunday nights on ABC beginning on September 23, 1962, with prime time reruns continuing through September 22, 1963.[7] It debuted as the first program broadcast in color on ABC, back in the early 1960s

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. 🤗

[sunnybrook]

10. I've been watching this on Tubi

It is so fun! I adore Astro

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. ☺️

[Danmel]

11. But gender roles remained in the 1960s

[Floyd R. Turbo]

31. And the 2060s!

[Diamond_Dog]

12. I love it

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. 🤗

[IbogaProject]

14. I was a big Hanna Barbera fan

They slipped into rehashed formulaic stuff later but that and the Flintstones were cool.

[twodogsbarking]

17. I too loved the Stones. They started out on prime time.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. 😃

[kimbutgar]

27. The Jetsons and the Flintstones were my favorites as a kid

But why no flying cars now? Or a foot powered cars?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. 😁

[3catwoman3]

29. Telemedicine was one of the reasons it was time to retire.

I think it’s OK for non-illness things like nutritional counseling, short-term behavior problems, potty training questions, sleep/bedtime concerns, and the like.

My former practice started doing telemedicine during COVID, and I hated every second of it. We were supposed to get parents to try to shine a flashlight into their kid’s mouth and then position the kid in front of their computer screen so we could try to look in there - fat fucking chance. Little kids are challenging enough to examine face-to-face sometimes.

And I’d be trying to coach the parents on palpating lymph nodes - “Feel the front and back of the neck. If you feel little bumps the size of mini M&Ms, we won’t worry. If they’re the size of grapes, it matters.” Or feeling the belly - “Does it hurts when you push in, or when you let go?”

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. 😥

[Polybius]

30. Funny thing is though, they still had 4:3 CRT TV's!

They couldn't predict widescreen.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. 😁