Summary

As a child of the 1960s, I grew up with dreams of a high tech future, so different from my simple rural family lifestyle. In part, that fondness for the future was drawn from the television show, The Jetsons, with its flying cars and robotic home helpers. As I grew into adulthood, I came to understand that social change happens incrementally and that cartoon flying cars would only become a norm if many other innovations came first.

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