Your connected home will be cooler than 'The Jetsons'

Mike Soucie of Nest and other attendees at a conference on the'connected home' talk about how and when our homes could mirror the Jetsons' futuristic abode. Jane Jetson works out with a virtual instructor on a flat-panel TV, just one of many future-tech predictions the 1962 cartoon sitcom got right. Hanna-Barbera's pre-Apollo era sitcom imagined a space-age future that looks remarkably like our gadget-filled present. Jetpack fifty years into the future, and The Jetsons may even look like quaint, says one technologist immersed in high-tech homes. We may not yet possess flying cars or self-propelling space suits, but we do have vacuuming robots, wearable computers, video chat and, of course, a screen that keeps us up to date on all our news. To activate many of their at-home tech toys, a remote control was needed.