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Meet George Jetson!

…his boy Elroy!…

…And George is skittering off in his family’s bubble-top jetcar to his leisurely job at Spaceley’s Sprockets, sometime in the 21st century…

In the six decades since Hanna-Barbera created a futuristic cartoon called “The Jetsons,” we’ve seen a lot of technological progress on this planet — a lot more than most of us probably could have imagined in the early 1960s.

It’s easy to take it as a matter of course, how fast things have changed in the past two or three

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