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Ahead Of Their Time

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    can think of three popular HB cartoons that may have been ahead of their time:

    "The Jetsons." Back in 1962, this series showed moving sidewalks, large screen TV's, and picture phones, the latter of which was actually in existence at the time. Today, more than half of the devices on this show are used today, including the use of computers for processing documents.

    "Goober And The Ghost Chasers." This series had the title characters using a Specter Detector to track down ghosts. Today, "Ghost Adventures" on The Travel Channel has three men using hightech equipment to uncover ghosts in haunted places.

    "Clue Club." These crimebusters not only had a two-way TV in their car, and wrist communicators, but Dotty used her home computer to run background checks on the suspects, a practice police use today.
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    Not to mention other shows like "Ghost Hunters" on Syfy.

    Another example of "The Jetsons" being ahead of their time: In the episode "A Date with Jet Screamer", Elroy is seen talking to someone on Outer Plutonia using a very large, bizarre speakerphone. He asks how things were on Outer Plutonia, and the Plutonian said they weren't bad. While we can't communicate with beings on other planets and galaxies just yet, we can communicate live with people half-way around the world using Skype or Vonage, along with webcam and live chat. We can check how things are in other parts of the world for ourselves within seconds.

    I wonder if we should move this to "Trivia", to allow for a wider array of studios. One thing I can think of regards Warner Bros. cartoons. In a lot of cartoons, primarily the Roadrunner/Coyote cartoons, a character can order something they need right now, and within seconds it appears. While we don't have that speedy of a delivery, orders can be shipped within the same day it is placed, and we get it within the same week in most cases.

    Farm of Tommorow
    Shows a humorous prediction of splicing to improve farm productivity.
    Today we have tomatoes with trout genes, goats with spider genes,
    monkeys with jellyfish genes, and pigs with a bit of human in them

    another from

    The Jetsons     Epsiode: Test Pilot George Jetson gets a medical exam from the inside by swallowing a small monitoring pill.
    Today the pillcam can be used to view the inside the digestive tract
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