{"id":2644,"date":"2020-01-02T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2020-01-02T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:26:40","slug":"back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/01\/02\/back-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tTq6Tofmo7E\">The Jetsons<\/a>&nbsp;theme song<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Color TV<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was born in 1956.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eisenhower was President, Elvis was about to be drafted, and televisions were small and in black and white.&nbsp;&nbsp;So my \u201ccartoon watching\u201d days were in the early 1960\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dad was working at a TV station (WLW-D in Dayton, he commuted from our Cincinnati home every day).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We got our \u201ccolor\u201d TV in 1963, the first in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watched the old favorites:&nbsp;&nbsp;Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Popeye and Mickey Mouse.&nbsp;&nbsp;But a new form of cartoons came about, the serial comedy shows.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rather than just a five or ten minute adventure \u201chunting wabbits,\u201d these cartoons were like the evening family shows,&nbsp;<em>Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Show,&nbsp;<\/em>and of course&nbsp;<em>Leave it to Beaver.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>In 1960 a show about a family in the Stone Age,&nbsp;<em>the Flinstones&nbsp;<\/em>began, and in 1962,&nbsp;<em>The Jetsons.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Jetsons<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>Jetsons&nbsp;<\/em>was the story of a normal family in the year 2062.&nbsp;&nbsp;Father George worked in a \u201cwhite collar\u201d job at the Spacely Space Sprocketts.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jane, his wife, lived a middle class life, shopping and taking care of the home (with the help of various robots).&nbsp;&nbsp;Daughter Judy was in high school, and son Elroy was in elementary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The show set the tone for what the future would look like.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;<em>Jetsons<\/em>&nbsp;lived in an apartment on stilts high in the clouds, and drove air cars from place to place.&nbsp;&nbsp;All the sidewalks were moving, and most of the time, in fact almost all of the time was spent \u201cin the air\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;The ground was still there, it was where homeless folks (called hobos back then) wandered, the stilt-like apartments had foundations, and birds stayed because the sky was too full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We didn\u2019t really know why the \u201cmiddle class\u201d moved up into the sky.&nbsp;&nbsp;But we did get a cartoon version of what the future should look like.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, more than half way there, we are still waiting for our flying cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there\u2019s a lot of other cartoon \u201cpredictions\u201d that are now matter of fact.\u00a0\u00a0While we don\u2019t yet have \u201cRosie\u201d the robot maid, we are well on the way with robot vacuum cleaners and digitally controlled homes.\u00a0\u00a0And maybe the\u00a0<em>Jetsons<\/em> foreshadowed climate change, as they abandon the flooded or droughted earth to the homeless and move into the clouds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wrist Radios<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the most predictive show was\u00a0<em>Dick Tracy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>This cartoon started as a comic strip<em>\u00a0<\/em>about a detective who from 1946 on had a \u201cwrist radio,\u201d a watch that he could use to communicate to others on his team.\u00a0\u00a0In 1964 the cartoon series debuted a \u201cwrist TV\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Well we got those.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Apple<\/em>\u00a0<em>Watch\u00a0<\/em>has all of those traits, and even folks older than me are wearing them.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve resisted that temptation; it\u2019s just one more thing that I need reading glasses for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we are all carrying greater computing power in our pockets (and on our wrists) than any of us could access as late as twenty years ago.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s hard to imagine that the Apollo moon rockets, or the Space Shuttles, had less computing power than we all carry with us everyday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It Comes Around<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What else has the \u201cfuture wrought?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Well, what\u2019s a \u201clong distance\u201d call, in our age where we expect absolute connection with each other at all times?&nbsp;&nbsp;And while today we have&nbsp;<em>Uber Eats<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Grub-Hub<\/em>, back while I was watching the&nbsp;<em>Jetsons&nbsp;<\/em>we had milk and bread, ice cream and chips (Charlie Chips) delivered to the house several times a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wires are gone.\u00a0\u00a0My TV\u2019s aren\u2019t even hooked to cable anymore; I\u2019ve \u201ccut\u201d away to use a streaming service.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a bit of irony; I remember my television industry father talking about how the hundreds of cable channels would crowd out broadcast television.\u00a0\u00a0He worried that the \u201cstations\u201d would get chased out of business.\u00a0\u00a0Today those channels still exist, but cable service is getting relegated to a \u201cpipeline\u201d role.\u00a0\u00a0Programming has passed onto the \u201cstreamers,\u201d\u00a0<em>Netflix, Hulu, Amazon\u00a0<\/em>and the like.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Connections<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And what have we lost?&nbsp;&nbsp;When my father passed away a few years ago, I cleaned out his home office (I\u2019m writing this essay on his executive desk, shoe-horned into my home office now).&nbsp;&nbsp;I found files of professional letters between the executives in his industry, congratulating each other on achievements, promotions, or anniversaries.&nbsp;&nbsp;Typed by their secretaries, dictated either live or on \u201cDictaphones,\u201d these courteous notes on onion skin paper were markers of a more \u201cproper\u201d time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, maybe it\u2019s an email, or more likely a text.&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019ve lost the \u201cclass\u201d by saving the time and effort.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And maybe we\u2019ve lost those connections to each other as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So here we are in the \u201cfuture\u201d, 2020.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are more connected, and somehow more isolated.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are webbed into the world, but less present to each other.&nbsp;&nbsp;And we are certainly more vulnerable as our pipeline for information gets narrowed to what can fit into ten seconds, in our pocket, or on our wrists.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jetsons&nbsp;theme song Color TV I was born in 1956.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eisenhower was President, Elvis was about to be drafted, and televisions were small and in black and white.&nbsp;&nbsp;So my \u201ccartoon watching\u201d days were in the early 1960\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dad was working at a TV station (WLW-D in Dayton, he commuted from our Cincinnati home every day).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We got our &hellip; 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