By Sophia Benoit

GEORGE JETSON only works two hours a week. Jane Jetson presses a button to fix her hair. In the animated TV series’ dreamy, halcyon world of 2026, basically all chores have been automated. Even Rosey, the family’s robotic maid, has better things to do than laundry and dry-cleaning. Both are handled by arms that emerge from walls.

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