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What The Jetsons got right, and very wrong, about the future of work

Written by Agustin Chevez, Workplace Futures Research Lead, Centre for the New Workforce., Swinburne University of Technology

George Jetson at work.Hanna-Barbera

Sixty years ago the animated series The Jetsons finished its first and only season before being cancelled. Just 24 episodes were broadcast between September 1962 and March 1963. Despite this the cartoon has achieved huge influence in popular culture, with countless reruns, a reboot in the mid-1980s (51 episodes...

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