Karin Ellison to speak at "The Jetsons" TV Dinner Event

Since 1962, The Jetsons has defined an iconic vision of the future, imagining a course of progress that blends high technology with familiar social and cultural values. 

Yinong Chen and Karin Ellison will join CSI director Ed Finn to discuss The Jetsons and interpret what it tells us about robotics, the nuclear family, and the peculiar relationships that form between humans and technology.

Yinong Chen is an expert in robotics and computing, and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at ASU. Dr. Chen directs ASU's Robotics Camps for middle and high school students, organizes the Arizona Robotics Challenge, and serves as advisor for the ASU Robotics Team.

Karin Ellison is the Associate Director of the Center for Biology and Society at ASU. Dr. Ellison is an expert in research ethics and the history of science and technology.  Her research investigates improving ethics instruction and the institutional history of American science and technology, particularly the history of engineers and engineering in the US.

Think we're the only ones taking The Jetsons seriously? Read more in the Smithsonian magazine.