The Jetsons Future of J.D. Robb

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I've been slowly reading the Eve Dallas mysteries by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts), a few at a time, and recently passed number 25 in the series. Even while reading the first in the series, Naked in Death, I've thought the future New York City Robb presented was a "Jetsons Future."

By the way, this is not a critique. It's more me musing about a concept, and how Robb put it into practice; how she used science fictional trappings within the context of a noir detective series, while keeping...