How close are we to becoming the Jetsons?

Back in the nineties, my favorite TV show was called Tomorrow's World, a UK-based show which ran for a whopping 38 years on the BBC. It discussed the latest developments in science and technology (just look at this snippet of what the home in 2020 would look like). Back then, the future was extra exciting. Technology would make our lives infinitely easier – we'd be commuting to work in electric, automated cars, and life at home would just be one smooth series of button pushing. The height of this slightly skewed future gazing was my favorite Saturday morning space-age animated sitcom, The Jetsons, which first aired in the 1960s.