My friends had this argument earlier about the jetsons. Did the Jetsons over estimate our technological achievements or underestimate it (I believe the show is supposed to take place in 1997)? On one hand, they see us having flying cars, but on the other hand their computers are still hugh.
There's still time. I couldn't pin down a date, but one site suggests that the series took place in the mid 21st century. So providing we develop interstellar travel tomorrow and put it into use sometime next week, there's still time to catch up with the show.
When was it made? I think I remember that show from cartoon network, and I doubt it's supposed to take place in 1997.
HannaBarbera also made the Flintstones, where humans live together with dinosaurs.
my recolection says that they were past 2050, maybe even past 2100.
and i would say that they got it prety well from a tech standpoint, the realism of USING that tech, they definetly overshot that.
the buildings on poles are impractical.
the flying cars are definetly possible even now. (helicopters get there, and hover craft can proly be overpowered to act like their cars).
the interstellar travel, they just didnt understand their own tech. their tech wasnt warp drives so their speeds were sublight. they just cut the times it would take when they did the "to a star far away" episodes.
as for computers, they had small ones, the large ones were the automated factory controllers. and those would be huge even now.
1999 we get a guy leaping around in time... clothing covered in LCD's is the norm, "Hover cars," and Voice Recognition is in must apartments... well, they may have had the fashion off but alot of the rest (except maybe holograms and time travel) aren't TOO far fetched.
In the Jetsons, yeah they had some things but not others, comparing to today.
Just remember Star Trek keeps on "adjusting" it's time line. The Eugenics Wars of the 1990's has become the Eugentic wars of the 2050's
Oh god, no!!! They seem to be way off!!! Especially If it's supposed to take place in 1997!!! And Heck no would the future look so....Well, how can I put this...No way in heck would the clothes look so...no straight in the future! They just wore tight-fitting pants all the time!!!
Shadowrun did however. And the Matrix plus Johnny Mnemonic and a dozen other movies ripped this classic and underrated roleplaying game clean off. Unfortunately FASA is out of business. There were some creative SOBs working on that game.
Cgannon: Watch that! Quantum Leap was an excellent show. Watch it and you won't be disappointed.
Didn't Shadowrun rip off an idea from William Gibson? He might have been the first to talk about big computer networks like that. But that would have been in the 80's, and the internet was established by then. Just not common knowledge.
It's just a cartoon made by people who have no idea what the future holds.
They have flying cars and sky-high buildings, yet they don't even have cell-phones.
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They just wore tight-fitting pants all the time!!!
