Fifty Years Later, Bits Of Our Own Reality Reflected In 'Jetsons' Future Audie Cornish talks to Matt Novak, writer of the <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/">Paleofuture</a> blog for Smithsonian, about his recent posts about the TV show, The Jetsons, on its 50th anniversary and why it still matters today.

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

Finally, this hour, we're going back to the future.

(SOUNDBITE FROM FILM "BACK TO THE FUTURE")

CORNISH: Oh, Marty McFly, so 1985. Actually, let's go even further back.

(SOUNDBITE FROM "THE JETSONS" THEME)

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