In 1962, the kids’ cartoon show The Jetsons premiered, featuring a family of four living decades into the future. The show conjured up a panoply of nifty gadgets that ran the gamut of eventual 2020s accuracy from video calls (yes) to robot assistants (sort of) to flying cars (no). Even with this array of creative technological forecasting, it was somehow beyond the imagination of The Jetsons’ creators to envision that wife Jane Jetson would have a job outside the home. The writers understood the transformative power of technology in its direct effects, but not in its downstream impacts on
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