I think it's trite to pick on The Jetsons, while ignoring the many attempted predictions of the future that did focus on "underlying social relations." Marxism

I think it's trite to pick on The Jetsons, while ignoring the many attempted predictions of the future that did focus on "underlying social relations." Marxism was, in large part, a techno futurism. JM Keynes predicted a future of 15hr workweeks and leisure societies. Feminism, at various point in time, was had strong techno-futuristic elements. It's either really hard to predict people, or we aren't objective enough to do social science. Our predictions and attempts at critical analysis tend to reflect our ideals, or anti-ideals moreso than an objective conclusion. Meanwhile, predicting the butterfly effect of a technology or change is almost impossible. Could a western european living in the 1400s and pondering the importance printing presses have predicted the Protestant Reformation? I'm not saying it's bad to delve into such questions. I'm saying not to start with a "no one ever talks about X..."