So funny you mentioned The Jetsons. My niece, who is not much younger than me, was just comparing our technology and lives to the Jetsons when we chatted at a family cookout this past weekend. My theory is that science fiction becomes science fact, this includes technological advances shown in movies and T.V. shows that we used to think too "far out" to become reality. Remember Star Trek when they were talking on phones with no wires? LOL Or even that they could send ships into outer space at all.
I remember the classic 50s movie, "Forbidden Planet", where the astronaut's communication device was wired to his belt.
But the central part of that movie involved an alien machine that makes modern day computers and 3D printers look antique.
In the movie, on another planet a long extinct but super-advanced alien civilization had left behind a machine that an earthling
discovered could increase his intelligence and manifest his material needs. While he tried to keep the machine a secret, at the
same time, an evil invisible monster stalked the planet and had killed all the other earthlings on the planet, including some of the
astronauts who had come to rescue him and his daughter. The problem was, he didn't want to leave. In the end, it was discovered
that while he was connected to the alien machine, it was picking up murderous thoughts from his unconscious and manifesting them
into the terrible invisible force that was doing the killing. In other words, the machine released and manifested "monsters from the id."
The "id" was Freud's term for the impulsive, primitive, dark, deadly part of the mind. Ironically, modern computers do the same thing.
