Talking alarms Back when The Jetsons was initially aired the best way to wake up on time for your next miserable shift on the job would be to use an alarm clock fit with a rather enthusiastic bell that was as upsetting as getting out of bed. In this atomised future the Jetsons had alarms… Read More
Back in 1962 the animation production company Hanna-Barbera released their futuristic cartoon sitcom titled The Jetsons. It played as something of a counterpart to their Stone Age sitcom The Flintstones and played out as a satire on what at the time was modern life. In the process of doing this it turned out their jokes… Read More
One of the most persistent tropes in retrofuturism is that of an alternate past that has set the world on a completely different path, creating an entirely different existence as we know it. Perhaps one of the best recent examples of this is Bethesda’s Fallout video game series. Here they pose the question, what would… Read More
